Dears Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1962. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Dears Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- outer-arch-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1962
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Dears Farmhouse, 2 and 4, Fardells Lane, Elsworth, CB23 4JE
- OS grid reference
- TL 315 638
- Coordinates
- 52.25679, -0.07383
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dears Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1601, as indicated by a carving on a beam. It includes one bay of an earlier building and an extension that may date from the 18th century to the west. The structure features an exposed timber frame with plastered panels and a plastered timber frame. There is a red brick ridge stack that is partly plastered and has been rebuilt with grouped shafts. The farmhouse has two storeys and an attic, with a main range that has a continuous jetty and an original entrance to the north. The main entrance is on the left side, featuring a six-panelled door in a reeded doorcase. Below the jetty, there are two small horizontal sliding sash windows and two canted bay hung sash windows with a carved fascia. On the first floor, there are four horizontal sliding sash windows and one restored three-light mullioned window. The interior includes inglenook hearths and ovolo moulded and chamfered axial beams.
Local climate
Dears 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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