The Ancient Shepherd is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1984. Inn. 2 related planning applications.
The Ancient Shepherd
- WRENN ID
- scattered-zinc-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1984
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Ancient Shepherd, 5, High Street, Fen Ditton, CB5 8ST
- OS grid reference
- TL 485 602
- Coordinates
- 52.2204, 0.17254
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ancient Shepherd is an inn dating from the late 18th century to the early 19th century. It features a combination of plastered timber-frame and painted brick construction, topped with plain tile hipped roofs. The building has two local gault brick ridge stacks and a gable stack on the east side. It is one storey high with attics and includes three gabled dormer windows. To the east of the entrance, there are two four-paned hung sash windows beside a four-panelled door. The inn also has an early 19th-century canted bay window with a plain tile roof. On the west side, there is a half-glazed panelled door flanked by two three-light horizontal sliding sash windows set in segmental brick arches.
Local climate
The Ancient Shepherd sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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 — 2 transactions since 2017
- 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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