Spanyards is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Spanyards

WRENN ID
lunar-tracery-marsh
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 August 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Spanyards, 30, High Green, Great Shelford, CB22 5EG
OS grid reference
TL 463 524
Coordinates
52.15105, 0.13772
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Spanyards is a cottage, possibly originally built as a pair of cottages, dating from the late 17th century. It has undergone later alterations and features a 20th-century addition at one end. The building is timber framed and rendered, standing on a brick plinth with a thatched roof. It has an original red brick ridge stack with diagonally set grouped shafts. The plan consists of three bays, with the possibility of a fourth bay added, and a gable end facing the former Green. The doorway is located opposite the stack. There are two dormers and three windows on either side of the porch leading to the entry. The right-hand gable end includes a two-storey canted bay, added in the 20th century. Inside, the room to the right features early 19th-century stencilled wall painting with a foliate design, and there are abutting inglenook hearths.

Local climate

Spanyards 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 2015
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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