Hoback Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. House.
Hoback Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- small-beam-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hoback Farmhouse, Cambridge Road, Wimpole
- OS grid reference
- TL 347 490
- Coordinates
- 52.1237, -0.03378
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hoback Farmhouse is an 18th-century house with a timber frame, rendered exterior, and steeply pitched tiled roofs. It features a red brick ridge stack and stands two storeys high with an attic. The building has two gabled dormers and two first-floor windows fitted with modern casements. There is a baffle entry door, and a contemporary stairhouse is located on the east side. Additionally, there is a single-storey range of two bays that is also contemporary. Access to the interior was not permitted.
Local climate
Hoback Farmhouse 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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