4, The Moor is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
4, The Moor
- WRENN ID
- dark-entrance-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 4, The Moor, Melbourn, SG8 6ED
- OS grid reference
- TL 385 450
- Coordinates
- 52.08637, 0.0211
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 17th-century cottage, extended in the 19th century and renovated. It has an exposed timber frame and a reed thatched roof, featuring a rebuilt ridge stack with a single flue. The cottage follows a three-bay plan with a lobby entry. It is two storeys high and has three mid-20th century casement windows on the first floor. A 19th-century extension forms a service bay on the northeast end. The walls are of clunch and the roof is thatched with a hipped form. A late 20th-century extension sits at the rear. The interior features exposed timber framing and some inserted timbers.
Local climate
4, The Moor 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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