John Barleycorn Inn is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. Inn. 2 related planning applications.
John Barleycorn Inn
- WRENN ID
- haunted-wattle-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1986
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- John Barleycorn Inn, 3, Moorfield Road, Duxford, CB22 4PP
- OS grid reference
- TL 479 462
- Coordinates
- 52.09443, 0.15895
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The John Barleycorn Inn is an inn dating from the late 16th century, with 17th century and later alterations, including a date of 1660 on the gable of a dormer window. The building is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a thatched half hipped roof. It features a tall red brick ridge stack with joined diagonal shafts, and a 18th century end stack on the left side. The inn has one storey and an attic, with two boarded doors, two horizontal sliding sash windows, one casement window, and one casement dormer window. Inside, there are exposed chamfered ceiling beams with leaf stops.
Local climate
John Barleycorn Inn 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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