Home Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. House. 10 related planning applications.
Home Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- shifting-panel-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Home Farmhouse, High Street, Babraham, CB22 3AG
- OS grid reference
- TL 512 502
- Coordinates
- 52.12983, 0.20841
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Home Farmhouse is a house, originally a farmhouse, built in the mid to late 18th century. It was altered and extended around 1830 and renovated around 1970. The house is constructed of painted red brick and 19th-century brick, with plain tiled and slated roofs. It has a red brick side stack on the right and gault brick rear stacks. The house is two storeys high, with cellars.
The original symmetrical front elevation was altered around 1830, with the original entrance blocked. A new side entrance was created. The main south-west facade has three bays, marked by a dentil brick eaves cornice. It features three first-floor flush-framed sash windows with twelve panes each. A central ground-floor sash window with twelve panes was inserted into the original doorway. A canted, flat-roofed bay window is on the right, with sash windows, and a wide twelve-paned sash window recessed in a segmental brick arch is on the left.
The main side entrance, on the south-west, has a six-raised and fielded-panelled door with patterned metal glazing bars to a fanlight, set within an open pediment with dentil enrichment and a cornice with console brackets.
The interior includes a 19th-century closed string staircase, deep skirting boards, and four-panelled doors with moulded architraves. Three Rococo 18th-century chimney pieces, possibly introduced around 1970, are also present.
Local climate
Home 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.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 10 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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