Moor Barns Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Moor Barns Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- leaning-rampart-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Moor Barns Farmhouse, Cambridge Road, Madingley
- OS grid reference
- TL 414 596
- Coordinates
- 52.21705, 0.06857
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moor Barns Farmhouse is a house that dates from the late 17th century, with an extension added in the early to mid-18th century and a remodel around 1840 to 1850 when the main block was added. The original part of the house is timber-framed, roughcast rendered, and has a cement-tiled roof, featuring a late 17th-century red brick ridge stack and a grey brick stack from the 1840-1850 period, which has two diagonally set shafts on a rectangular base. The original structure consists of a single north-south range with three bays and a lobby entry plan. The 19th-century addition has transformed the layout into an L-plan.
The farmhouse is two storeys high and has four flush frame hung sash windows, each with twenty panes. The doorway is located in its original position opposite the stack. The late 17th-century house was extended by one bay to the north in the early to mid-18th century, featuring red brick and a tiled roof, with one similar window on each storey and two original windows at the gable end, which have segmental arches, along with one window that has a wood grille. There is a fire insurance plaque on this gable end. The 1840 addition forms the main south range, constructed of grey brick with a steeply pitched roof, and has a symmetrical elevation with two two-storey gables flanking the central doorway, featuring recessed hung sash windows.
Local climate
Moor Barns 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 1 application
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