College Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1980. Cottage.
College Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- high-pediment-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- College Farmhouse, Common Road, Weston Colville
- OS grid reference
- TL 630 518
- Coordinates
- 52.1411, 0.38121
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
College Farmhouse is a late 17th-century cottage that was likely subdivided in the 19th century but is now a single dwelling. The building is timber framed, rendered, and has a thatched roof made of combed wheat reed, featuring a half hip. It includes a red brick ridge stack and consists of three bays with an outshut at the rear. The structure has one storey and an attic, with one full gable dormer and three ground floor late 20th-century casement windows. There are two doorways from the 19th-century subdivision and two modern doors. The framed and rendered outshut is likely slightly younger than the main cottage and is also thatched.
Inside, there is an original staircase located on the north side of the hearth, back-to-back inglenook fireplaces, and ceiling joists that are laid on edge with straight downward wall bracing.
Local climate
College Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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