The Shrubberies is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
The Shrubberies
- WRENN ID
- old-chimney-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Shrubberies, 2, Duxford Road, Whittlesford
- OS grid reference
- TL 473 482
- Coordinates
- 52.11313, 0.15019
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Shrubberies is a house dating from the late 17th century, with alterations made in the late 18th or early 19th century. It features painted brick that may cover a timber frame and has a slated roof with a central ridge stack. The house is two storeys high and has a central closed gabled porch located at the lobby entry. This porch includes a panelled door and a rectangular fanlight, along with a barge board and an apex finial. The building has a plain brick parapet and cambered brick arches over two sixteen-paned living sash windows on both the ground and first floors.
Local climate
The Shrubberies sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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