Lower House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1986. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Lower House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- rough-pedestal-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower House Farmhouse, Main Street, Shudy Camps, CB21 4RA
- OS grid reference
- TL 613 450
- Coordinates
- 52.07995, 0.35333
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower House Farmhouse is a late 17th-century house, extended at the east end. It is timber-framed, with plaster rendering and a tiled roof, featuring end stacks. The west stack is constructed of red brick with visible offsets. The two-storey facade exhibits three first-floor windows, each with six panes in double-hung sashes. A central doorway is adorned with a 19th-century doorcase and a flat hood supported by console brackets. The building is described in the Victoria County History of Cambridgeshire, Volume VI, page 50.
Local climate
Lower House Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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