Blythe Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Blythe Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-marble-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Blythe Farmhouse, 51, Mill Street, Gamlingay, SG19 3JW
- OS grid reference
- TL 237 520
- Coordinates
- 52.15266, -0.19245
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blythe Farmhouse is a house dating from 1670, with initials SM possibly reset in the late render over the front door. The building features a timber frame, rendered exterior, and a tiled roof. It has a red brick ridge stack with four diagonally set linked shafts on a rectangular base. The house is designed in a T-plan with a later lean-to addition in the angle. It stands two storeys high with an attic and has two two-storey canted bays on either side of the baffle entry doorway, which features an early 19th-century flush panelled door. There is also a single-storey kitchen wing that is framed, rendered, and tiled. A later gabled stair turret and flanking lean-to are part of a domestic addition. The inglenook hearths are now blocked. In 1664, the house was owned by Stephen Apthorpe, and it is possible that one initial is missing or has been removed.
Local climate
Blythe 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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 0.4°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 1997
- 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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