The Poacher is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Inn. 1 related planning application.
The Poacher
- WRENN ID
- distant-plinth-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Poacher, 1, Brockley Road, Elsworth, CB23 4JS
- OS grid reference
- TL 315 635
- Coordinates
- 52.25483, -0.07425
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Poacher is an inn dating from the late 17th century. Originally timber framed, the building now has walls made of 19th-century painted brick. It features a thatched half-hipped roof and has one storey with an attic. The façade includes four three-light horizontal sliding sash windows and a boarded entrance door, along with two 20th-century casement dormer windows. There is a rear stack and a stack on the left side of the building.
Local climate
The Poacher 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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