Stables is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Stable. 1 related planning application.
Stables
- WRENN ID
- stark-timber-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- Stable
- Address
- Stables, 3, South Street, Comberton
- OS grid reference
- TL 381 561
- Coordinates
- 52.18665, 0.0197
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The stables at No. 3, Cross Farmhouse, date from 1754 and the 19th century. They are timber-framed, weatherboarded, and built on a red and yellow brick plinth, topped with a long straw thatch roof. The structure consists of six bays and features four stable door openings facing the yard. The weatherboarding on the west side is likely reused from the 17th century. At the south end, there is a small 19th-century barn that now serves as a garage, which is also timber-framed, weatherboarded, and thatched. Inside, the stables contain reused materials, including a brace inscribed with the date 1754 and the initials T.H. Part of one wall and the house end have been rebuilt using clay bat.
Local climate
Stables 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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 — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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