Cockranes Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. Farmhouse.

Cockranes Farmhouse

WRENN ID
former-obsidian-crow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 December 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Cockranes Farmhouse, 10-14, Lower Street, Thriplow and Heathfield
OS grid reference
TL 436 464
Coordinates
52.09816, 0.09533
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cockranes Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse that has been divided into three dwellings, with some rebuilding and alterations in the 19th century. The building is timber-framed and plastered, featuring both slated and plain tiled roofs. It has two octagonal red brick chimneys on the ridge of the east cross wing, a gault brick chimney on the main range, and a rear chimney on the west cross wing and outshut.

The farmhouse is two storeys high, with a hall that has cross wings to the east and west. The hall range may have been rebuilt around 1800, and the main entrance features a half-glazed door with margin glazing bars and a reeded door case with corner bosses, topped by a shallow hood supported by shaped brackets. To the right of the entrance, there is a cambered bay window with a tented roof and hung sashes. Each cross wing has two sixteen-paned ground floor hung sash windows that are rebated for shutters, as well as two smaller hung sash windows and one casement window on the first floor.

Inside, there are sealed hearths, some exposed timber framing in the east cross wing, and stop-chamfered ceiling beams.

Local climate

Cockranes Farmhouse 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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