Coombe Grove Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. House.

Coombe Grove Farmhouse

WRENN ID
narrow-postern-ash
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Coombe Grove Farmhouse, Old North Road, Wimpole
OS grid reference
TL 320 528
Coordinates
52.15838, -0.07103
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Coombe Grove Farmhouse is a house dating from the 17th century, with later timber alterations. It features a timber frame, plaster rendering, and tiled gabled roofs. There is a Gault brick ridge stack on the western range, while the kitchen wing has a red brick stack with rebuilt courses at the top. The building is arranged in a T-plan and has two storeys. The façade includes a range of three recessed hung sashes and two canted bays from the 19th century, positioned on either side of the baffle entry doorway.

Local climate

Coombe Grove 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 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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