Old Close Farm is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Cottage.
Old Close Farm
- WRENN ID
- narrow-chancel-coral
- 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
- Old Close Farm, 43, South Street, Comberton
- OS grid reference
- TL 382 560
- Coordinates
- 52.185, 0.02109
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Close Farm is a cottage dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century, with some elements from around 1840. It features a timber-framed structure that is plaster rendered, topped with a longstraw thatch mansard roof. The building has grey brick, single flue end stacks. Its layout consists of two bays on either side of a central hall and stair bay, with an outshut at the rear. The cottage is one storey with an attic and has two horizontal sliding sash windows on either side of the doorway.
Local climate
Old Close Farm 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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