Barn at Balsham Place is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1986. Barn. 3 related planning applications.
Barn at Balsham Place
- WRENN ID
- sheer-roof-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1986
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Balsham Place, High Street, CB21 4EP
- OS grid reference
- TL 581 508
- Coordinates
- 52.13345, 0.30949
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn at Balsham Place is a structure dating from the 17th to 18th century. It is timber framed, with weatherboarding and a half-hipped roof that is covered with reed thatch. The barn consists of three bays and has aisles. There is a porch opening on the west side, and it features braced tie beams and aisle ties.
Local climate
Barn at Balsham Place sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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