Old Saddlers the Red House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. House.

Old Saddlers the Red House

WRENN ID
solitary-tallow-pine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 November 1967
Type
House
Address
Old Saddlers the Red House, 19, High Street, Bassingbourn Cum Kneesworth
OS grid reference
TL 331 439
Coordinates
52.07777, -0.05781
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Saddlers, also known as The Red House, is a Grade II listed building located on the north side of High Street in Bassingbourn-cum-Kneesworth. This structure consists of two dwellings, which were originally three, and included a shop that divided a single dwelling. It dates back to the 16th century, with later jettied extensions from the late 16th or 17th century, along with alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries.

The building is timber-framed and plastered, featuring 20th-century pargetted panels that replaced earlier 17th-century geometric patterned pargetting. The ground floor is made of red brick and is plastered with applied timber decoration. The roof is plain tiled and has three red brick stacks. The building is two storeys high and runs parallel to the street, showcasing a long jetty and a single-storey gable extension to the east.

There are blocked shop windows and two doorways, with a garage door added to the west. The building has 19th and 20th-century doors and five casement windows on both the first and ground floors, which vary in size and feature glazing bars and leaded lights in wooden casements. The interior has been altered, but some chamfered ceiling beams remain exposed.

Local climate

Old Saddlers the Red 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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