College Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 October 1983. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
College Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- ghost-plinth-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 October 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- College Farmhouse, Main Street, Caldecote, CB23 7NU
- OS grid reference
- TL 347 564
- Coordinates
- 52.19009, -0.02976
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
College Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse constructed with a timber frame and rough cast rendering, topped with a thatched roof. It features a rebuilt 19th-century gault brick ridge stack. The building has one storey and an attic, following a three-unit plan. The entrance includes a boarded door in a lobby entry position, with two horizontal sliding sash windows on the ground floor and two similar dormer windows above. Inside, there is an inglenook hearth in the central room and either boxed or stop-chamfered beams.
Local climate
College Farmhouse 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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