Ashcroft House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.
Ashcroft House
- WRENN ID
- under-passage-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ashcroft House, 119, Hay Street, Steeple Morden, SG8 0PD
- OS grid reference
- TL 287 433
- Coordinates
- 52.0733, -0.12359
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ashcroft House is an early 18th-century timber-framed house, originally roughcast rendered and now with a roughcast rendering over a timber frame, with painted brick detailing. It has a red brick side stack on the north gable and a plain tiled roof. The house is two storeys high with a rear outshut. It features one ground floor and one first floor casement window, and a panelled door with an open porch to the left. A coved eaves cornice runs around the building.
Local climate
Ashcroft House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1998
- 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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