Town Green Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. House.
Town Green Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- moated-latch-soot
- 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
- Town Green Farmhouse, 37, Town Green Road, Orwell
- OS grid reference
- TL 361 501
- Coordinates
- 52.13298, -0.01254
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Town Green Farmhouse is a house and barn that has been converted into a single dwelling, dating from the 16th and 17th centuries. The building features an exposed timber frame and long straw thatch, with a rebuilt end stack on the southeast side. The east-west range of the house consists of two bays and is two storeys high, with a jettied first floor and closely set, uniform scantling studwork. There is a leaded light casement window from around the 1930s on both the first and ground floors.
At right angles to the main structure is a north-south range, also two bays and two storeys tall. This range includes some inserted timber framing, but the main posts and trusses remain intact. It has two modern leaded light windows on the first and ground floors, and there is a doorway in the linking addition between the two ranges. Inside, the north-south range has some 1930s inserted timbers, but retains original cambered tie beams and ceiling. The east-west range was extended at the rear in the 17th century, and it features an inglenook hearth from this period.
Local climate
Town Green 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 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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