61 and 63, Abbey Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. Farmhouse.
61 and 63, Abbey Street
- WRENN ID
- unlit-pinnacle-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- 61 and 63, Abbey Street, Ickleton
- OS grid reference
- TL 490 435
- Coordinates
- 52.07031, 0.17342
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 61 and 63 Abbey Street is a farmhouse that dates from the late 16th century, with an early to mid 17th-century extension at the rear and 19th-century alterations. The building is timber-framed and plastered, featuring flint and red brick dressings, along with painted brick casing. The roofs are covered with red plain tiles and some modern plain tiles.
The farmhouse has two storeys and originally followed a three-unit plan, which was refronted in the 19th century. The entrance has a half-glazed panelled door set within a reeded doorcase that includes corner bosses. To the right of the entrance is a three-light casement window, while later inserted windows are found to the left. There are three large gabled dormer windows. A 17th-century red brick ridge stack is located to the left of centre, featuring a sawtooth brick cornice and two rebuilt diagonal shafts. The rear ridge stack also has two similar rebuilt shafts.
On the north-east wall, there is a lozenge-shaped pargetted panel dated 1684, which has an enriched border; another similar panel on the same wall has been destroyed. Inside, the building has sealed hearths and stop-chamfered ceiling beams. There is evidence in the former butcher's shop for the division of original service rooms located to the north-east of the street range.
Local climate
61 and 63, Abbey Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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