Chalk Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. House. 3 related planning applications.
Chalk Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- second-roof-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Chalk Farmhouse, High Street, Babraham, CB22 3AG
- OS grid reference
- TL 512 503
- Coordinates
- 52.13057, 0.209
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chalk Farmhouse is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, dating from the 17th century or earlier, with alterations and additions made in the early 19th century. It has a timber frame with plastering and features a plain tiled hipped roof, a tall rectangular ridge stack, and a rear stack. The building is two storeys high with cellars and has an L-shaped plan.
The symmetrical facade facing the street consists of three bays, featuring a six-panelled door with a rectangular fanlight, a pilastered doorcase with panelled reveals, and a flat canopy. There are two three-light hung sash windows on the ground floor and three flush-framed sixteen-paned hung sash windows above. The ceiling line in the north-west room intersects with the window. The original hall and cross-wing plan was remodeled in the 19th century, and there were additions made to the south; it is possible that the house originally jettied out towards the street.
Local climate
Chalk Farmhouse 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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