Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. House. 8 related planning applications.
Church Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church Farmhouse, Sawston Road, Babraham, CB22 3AP
- OS grid reference
- TL 504 500
- Coordinates
- 52.1281, 0.19654
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Farmhouse is a house, formerly a farmhouse, likely built in the early to mid-19th century. It is possibly associated with Jonas Webb (1796-1862), who was known for breeding Babraham Southdown sheep, a breed that gained international recognition. The house is constructed of gault brick with a shallow-pitched hipped slated roof and three chimney stacks. It has two storeys and a cellar, and its form is an L-shape with a later 19th-century extension. The symmetrical front facade has three bays. The main entrance features a plain pilastered doorcase leading to a six-panelled door with a rectangular fanlight incorporating patterned glazing bars, approached by two steps. There are two recessed twelve-paned hung sash windows within gauged brick arches on the ground floor, and three similar first-floor windows. The building has boarded eaves and a brick plinth. Interior details date from the 19th century.
Local climate
Church Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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