The Limes is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Limes
- WRENN ID
- tenth-belfry-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Limes, 57, High Street, Bassingbourn Cum Kneesworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 334 440
- Coordinates
- 52.07832, -0.05456
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Limes is a house dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, with 19th-century alterations and an addition. It features a timber frame that is cased in reused 18th-century red brick, topped with plain tiled roofs. The building is two storeys high with attics. There is a rectangular red brick stack for the main range and a gault brick stack for the projecting east wing. The house has a hipped 20th-century porch with a boarded door, flanked by two canted bay windows that have transomed casements. On the first floor, there are two three-light transomed casement windows and two small hipped dormer windows. The east wing has tall transomed casement windows, with a patterned blind arch above the first-floor window, a patterned barge board with a drop finial, and ridge tiles.
Local climate
The Limes 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings