Cart Shed, 10 Yards North West of Great Barn at Park Farm, at Wimpole Park is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Cart shed.
Cart Shed, 10 Yards North West of Great Barn at Park Farm, at Wimpole Park
- WRENN ID
- dusk-arch-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cart shed
- OS grid reference
- TL 340 514
- Coordinates
- 52.14473, -0.0425
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This cart shed, located 10 yards northwest of the Great Barn at Park Farm in Wimpole Park, dates from the early 19th century and was designed by Sir John Soane. It features a timber frame with weatherboarding on a brick plinth and is supported by brick piers. The roof is thatched with combed wheat reed and the building is one storey high with a loft. It has three dormers with bargeboards and is divided into nine bays by red brick piers. This structure is part of a planned group of farm buildings constructed for the 3rd Earl of Hardwicke.
Local climate
Cart Shed, 10 Yards North West of Great Barn at Park Farm, at Wimpole Park 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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