Queens House is a Grade II* listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. A Georgian House. 7 related planning applications.
Queens House
- WRENN ID
- high-frieze-onyx
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1967
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Queens House, 16, High Street, Linton, CB21 4HS
- OS grid reference
- TL 559 466
- Coordinates
- 52.09607, 0.27504
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Queens House is a house dated by its rainwater head to 1731, with a carved brick inscription 'I. WEBB 1731' on the rear wall. The building underwent alterations around 1780 to 1790 to its street facade and includes a service wing that is an original 17th-century two-unit plan lobby entry building. It is constructed of red brick, with the north-west side stuccoed, and features a timber-framed and plastered rear wing. The roofs are plain tiled.
The house has two storeys with attics, and the main north-west range has a rear staircase hall connected to the earlier building, which also has two storeys. The main facade displays parapet gables and end stacks, with a plain parapet above. There is a wooden eaves cornice with modillions and a plastered brick plinth. The facade features two-storey canted bay windows with hung sashes that rise to the cornice level. A central twelve-paned hung sash window is located above the entrance door, which has six panels and a fanlight with radial glazing bars. The wooden doorcase is adorned with attached columns on square bases and a dentil enriched entablature. A central ridge cupola with glazed lights and a leaded ogee cap completes the roofline.
Inside, there is an early 18th-century staircase with turned balusters and panelling. The house was possibly built for Thomas Talbot, steward of Linton Manors, around 1730.
Local climate
Queens House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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