Outhouse at Top Farm is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. Outhouse.
Outhouse at Top Farm
- WRENN ID
- moated-newel-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- Outhouse
- Address
- Outhouse at Top Farm, Town Street, Newton
- OS grid reference
- TL 437 494
- Coordinates
- 52.12425, 0.09891
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The outhouse at Top Farm, dating from the 19th century, was originally used as a dairy and coach-house. It is constructed of clunch on a yellow brick plinth and features a steeply pitched plain tile roof with a dentil eaves cornice and a ridge stack. The building has one storey and an attic, with one iron casement window that has leaded lights located in the gable end. There are stable and cartway openings in the side wall. This structure is included for its group value.
Local climate
Outhouse at Top Farm sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% 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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