The Old Plough is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Cottage. 7 related planning applications.
The Old Plough
- WRENN ID
- open-rampart-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Plough, 40, West Street, Comberton, CB23 7DS
- OS grid reference
- TL 378 561
- Coordinates
- 52.18674, 0.01552
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Plough is a cottage dating from the mid to late 17th century. It features a timber-framed structure with roughcast render and a long straw thatched roof. The building has an original axial ridge stack, which has been rebuilt at the upper courses, and an end stack that dates from the 19th century. The layout consists of three bays and a lobby entry plan, likely modified in the early 19th century when a second entry was added. The cottage is one storey high with an attic and includes three dormers. There are two doorways, one leading to the lobby entry, both fitted with early 19th-century flush panel doors. The windows consist of four early 19th-century nine-pane hung sashes without shoulders. To the left, there is a later 19th-century addition, which is a single storey, painted structure featuring three similar nine-pane sashes with shoulders. The building stands on a brick plinth with roughcast render over the timber frame or clay bat.
Local climate
The Old Plough 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 — 3 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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