Maris Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. House.
Maris Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- buried-gargoyle-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Maris Farmhouse, 46, High Green, Great Shelford
- OS grid reference
- TL 463 525
- Coordinates
- 52.15147, 0.13794
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Maris Farmhouse is a house from the early to mid-17th century. It is timber framed and plastered, featuring a steeply pitched roof that has been covered with cement tiles. The house has an original red brick ridge stack with grouped shafts set diagonally. It stands two storeys tall and follows a three bay and lobby entry plan. The exterior includes three flush frame windows from the 18th and 19th centuries, including a horizontal sliding sash window with small panes. There is also a 19th-century gabled porch at the lobby entry.
Local climate
Maris 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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