Old Town House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Old Town House
- WRENN ID
- third-spindle-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Town House, 29, North End, Meldreth, SG8 6NR
- OS grid reference
- TL 375 467
- Coordinates
- 52.10209, 0.00733
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Town House is a cottage dating from the late 17th century, with an extension of one bay to the west. It features a timber frame, is plaster rendered, and has a long straw thatch roof with two levels. The original red brick ridge stack is present. The building has a two bay and lobby entry plan, with the additional bay. There are three dormers and small pane horizontal sliding sashes, along with three shuttered small pane casements on the ground floor. The lobby entry has a boarded door. There is a small addition to the east end that was originally used for the Post Office, as well as modern additions to the west end and rear.
Local climate
Old Town House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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