The Homestead is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. House. 6 related planning applications.
The Homestead
- WRENN ID
- dusted-roof-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Homestead, 73, High Street, Meldreth, SG8 6LB
- OS grid reference
- TL 375 462
- Coordinates
- 52.09752, 0.00633
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Homestead is a house built between 1901 and 1904, featuring a combination of brick, roughcast render, and exposed timber framing on the first floor of its crosswing. It is designed in the Arts and Crafts style with steeply pitched tiled roofs, including a red brick side stack and an end stack. The building stands two storeys high, with the main range showcasing two gable eaves dormers, each fitted with flush frame casements containing three leaded lights. The entrance is located in a porch with a lean-to tiled roof that connects the main range to the crosswing. The crosswing also has two storeys, with its first floor jettied. It features exposed timber-framing and a moulded fascia board on the jetty beam, along with one flush frame casement of five leaded lights on the first floor and a canted bay window on the ground floor.
Local climate
The Homestead 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 2 transactions since 2018
- 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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