King Alfred's House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.
King Alfred's House
- WRENN ID
- lesser-cobble-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- King Alfred's House, 16, Riddy Lane, Bourn, CB23 2SP
- OS grid reference
- TL 323 565
- Coordinates
- 52.19154, -0.06536
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
King Alfred's House is a house that may date from around 1616 or earlier, with some 18th-century alterations. It features an exposed and plastered timber frame, with thatched and plain tile roofs. The building has a tall 17th-century red brick ridge stack and an 18th-century end stack on the right side, which has been partially rebuilt.
The house is two storeys high, with a one-storey kitchen range on the left that has an inserted 18th-century floor. There is a boarded door located in the lobby entry position, along with three large 20th-century casement windows and two first-floor casement windows. Notably, there are two original small fixed-light ovolo-moulded windows on the south-east and north-east facades.
Inside, the house features stop-chamfered ceiling beams, an exposed timber frame, and a large stack dated 1616 on the bressumer above the main hearth, which includes openings for a baking oven in the kitchen hearth.
Local climate
King Alfred's House 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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