2, Challis Green is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. Cottage.
2, Challis Green
- WRENN ID
- broken-loggia-russet
- 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
- 2, Challis Green, Barrington
- OS grid reference
- TL 397 498
- Coordinates
- 52.12905, 0.03958
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 2 Challis Green is a cottage with two main building periods. The southern part dates from the mid to late 17th century and features a timber frame that is partly exposed and roughcast rendered. It has a half-hipped tiled roof with an original red brick ridge stack and a later external end stack. The cottage is one storey with an attic, including one swept roof dormer and two 20th-century windows on either side of the doorway. The northern end of the cottage was added or rebuilt in the 18th century, also with a timber frame, clunch rubble infill, and plaster rendering. This section has a half-hipped tiled roof that is lower at the ridge. It includes another swept dormer and one casement window at ground level.
Inside, there is a red brick inglenook fireplace in the hall, a dentil cornice, and a boxed main beam. Stairs lead to two chambers above, featuring a landing balustrade of mid-18th-century column-on-vase type. The chamber over the hall has mid-18th-century sunk panelling on two cupboard doors flanking a small fireplace, which is adorned with a mid-18th-century mantelpiece and overmantel.
Local climate
2, Challis Green 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1998
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