Old Laceys is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. Farmhouse.
Old Laceys
- WRENN ID
- turning-postern-harvest
- 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
- Old Laceys, 38, St John's Street, Duxford
- OS grid reference
- TL 477 461
- Coordinates
- 52.09437, 0.15517
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Laceys is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the late 16th century. It features a dated plaster plaque on the street elevation that reads 'W. 1683 A'. The building is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a plain tiled roof that has a hipped section with a gablet to the west. There is a ridge stack on the left side of the building.
The house has two storeys and an attic. The main entrance has been blocked and replaced with a 20th-century casement window. There are two horizontal sliding sash windows and two additional casement windows with glazing bars on the ground floor. On the first floor, there are three windows and one casement dormer window. The dated plaque is lozenge-shaped and features corner rosettes and two thistle heads, similar to those found in Ickleton and Chishill, Cambridgeshire.
Inside, the room to the west has stop-chamfered ceiling beams and substantial joists.
Local climate
Old Laceys sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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