The Cedars is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. House. 1 related planning application.

The Cedars

WRENN ID
idle-passage-alder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 October 1985
Type
House
Address
The Cedars, 57, High Street, Melbourn, SG8 6DZ
OS grid reference
TL 382 447
Coordinates
52.08418, 0.01691
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cedars is a house dating from the late 17th century, constructed with a timber frame and rendered exterior, featuring a steeply pitched roof that was originally thatched. It has two grey brick ridge stacks added in the 19th century. The house has a lobby entry and a three-bay plan, consisting of one storey and an attic, with a later outshut at the rear. There are three mid-20th century flat roof dormers with replacement windows, as well as three early 19th century windows at the ground floor that have casements with arched top panes in square heads. The lobby entry doorway includes a fanlight with intersecting pointed arches, a panelled door, and a trellis work porch. A shop addition is located at the right-hand end of the building. Inside, some of the early to mid-17th century frame is visible, featuring substantial scantling and jowled heads on the posts. There is a red brick inglenook hearth with an ogee stop chamfer on the bressumer, and the main beam has ovolo moulding.

Local climate

The Cedars 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
  • 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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