The Beeches is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. House. 6 related planning applications.
The Beeches
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-cobalt-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Beeches, 34, High Street, Bassingbourn Cum Kneesworth, SG8 5LD
- OS grid reference
- TL 333 439
- Coordinates
- 52.07791, -0.05608
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Beeches is a house dating from the early 19th century. It features a main elevation made of gault brick, with a timber-frame and roughcast render. The roof is hipped and slated, topped with symmetrical brick stacks. The house has two storeys, with a central glazed-panelled door framed by a reeded wooden architrave. On the ground floor, there are two sixteen-paned hung sash windows, while the first floor has three of the same style.
Local climate
The Beeches sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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