Ponders House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. House.
Ponders House
- WRENN ID
- lost-cobalt-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ponders House, 2, Hines Lane, Comberton, CB23 7BZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 382 562
- Coordinates
- 52.18757, 0.02069
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ponders House is a house dating from the early to mid 17th century, with a crosswing addition made in the mid 20th century. It is timber-framed, roughcast rendered, and has a reed thatched roof, featuring an original end stack to the hall range with diagonally set shafts on a square base. The house includes a hall with a parlour and a crosswing at the road end. The hall is two storeys high and has 20th-century casement windows. There is a doorway leading to a stairbay at the end of the hall, which features an original door made of planks with three arched panels in two heights, secured with nail studs. The parlour crosswing is also two storeys and has two bays. Inside, some of the framing is exposed, including down bracing from the principal posts.
Local climate
Ponders 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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