Halfway House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. Cottage, former public house.
Halfway House
- WRENN ID
- last-string-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1985
- Type
- Cottage, former public house
- Address
- Halfway House, Dunsbridge Turnpike, Shepreth
- OS grid reference
- TL 396 465
- Coordinates
- 52.09968, 0.03738
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Halfway House is a cottage that was formerly a public house, likely built between 1823 and 1844. It features a timber frame with roughcast rendering and a long straw thatched roof, complete with a ridge and end stack. The building has a lobby entry plan and consists of one storey with an attic. There are three dormers and three horizontal sliding sash windows, along with two similar windows on either side of a gabled porch. This area of the village was likely settled in the 18th century, away from the main village center, and may be linked to the development of the Cambridge-Royston road, which became a turnpike in 1793.
Local climate
Halfway 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 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2010
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