West Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1980. House.
West Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tilted-pillar-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- West Farmhouse, 66, High Street, Orwell
- OS grid reference
- TL 367 503
- Coordinates
- 52.13478, -0.0033
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Farmhouse is a house dating from the mid-18th century. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond and features a hipped, tiled roof with a moulded brick eaves cornice and two internal stacks. The building has two storeys and attics, with four dormers. The first floor contains six original openings for flush frame hung sash windows, each with twelve panes. The ground floor has five windows, likely from the early 19th century. The doorway, located in the fourth bay, is also early 19th century and features a flush panelled door. This farmhouse was probably built for the Bendyshe family.
Local climate
West 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 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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