College Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. House. 3 related planning applications.
College Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- crooked-pedestal-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- College Farmhouse, Church Street, Fen Drayton, CB24 4SG
- OS grid reference
- TL 339 681
- Coordinates
- 52.29507, -0.0377
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
College Farmhouse is a house, originally a farmhouse, dating to circa 1600, with alterations made in the early 18th century. The house is timber-framed and plastered, with painted 18th-century soft red brick and local 17th-century brick facings. It has plain tile roofs. The building is two storeys high, with a further storey and attic, arranged in an L-shape. A parlour in the angle was rebuilt in the 18th century, possibly to accommodate visiting clergy. A late 19th-century gabled porch was added to the lobby entry position. The windows include two 20-pane hung sash windows, one 19th-century three-light hung sash window to the right, and two twelve-pane hung sash windows on the first floor. A rebuilt 17th-century ridge stack and a right-hand end stack feature tumbled parapet gables. The interior contains a staircase from circa 1730, and chimney pieces, one of which includes Delft tiles.
Local climate
College Farmhouse 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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 — 2 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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