Merry's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1981. Farmhouse. 13 related planning applications.
Merry's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tall-bronze-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1981
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Merry's Farmhouse, Wimpole Road, Great Eversden, CB23 1HR
- OS grid reference
- TL 360 530
- Coordinates
- 52.15911, -0.01306
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Merry’s Farmhouse is a 17th-century cottage located in Great Eversden. It is timber-framed and has rendered and plastered walls with a combed wheat reed thatched roof. The main range is a single storey with an attic, while a crosswing is two storeys high. The front features a lobby entrance with windows on either side, including a horizontal sliding sash window. A rebuilt ridge stack sits atop the main range, and the crosswing has one window to each floor. The interior retains stop-chamfered ceiling beams.
Local climate
Merry's 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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 — 1 transaction since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 13 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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