Golden Ball Inn is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Inn. 2 related planning applications.
Golden Ball Inn
- WRENN ID
- under-gravel-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Golden Ball Inn, High Street, Boxworth, CB23 4LY
- OS grid reference
- TL 345 640
- Coordinates
- 52.25834, -0.0306
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Golden Ball Inn is a 17th-century inn located on the north-west side of High Street in Boxworth. It features a timber-framed structure that is plastered and painted brick. The roof is half-hipped and thatched, with pantiled extensions to the north-east and north-west. The building has one storey and an attic, with two closed pantiled gabled porches that have boarded doors. There is one window with a 20th-century louvre and one casement window. A painted brick ridge stack completes the exterior.
Local climate
Golden Ball Inn 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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 — 2 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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