Red Lion Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1962. Farmhouse.

Red Lion Farmhouse

WRENN ID
strange-postern-magpie
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 August 1962
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Red Lion Farmhouse, 14, Ermine Street, Caxton, CB23 3PQ
OS grid reference
TL 304 581
Coordinates
52.20627, -0.09268
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Red Lion Farmhouse is a farmhouse that was formerly an inn, dating from the early 17th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and plaster, featuring painted brick and some weatherboarding. The roof is covered with plain tiles from the 20th century. The building has a ridge stack and an end stack on the right side. It is two storeys high and has an L-shaped plan, although the original rear wing to the north has been demolished. The farmhouse includes a lobby entry and two symmetrically positioned rear staircase turrets, along with later 19th and 20th-century outshuts. The main entrance is adorned with a tented canopy and a finial, leading to a fine original 17th-century panelled door. There are four ground floor windows with sixteen panes each and four first floor windows with eight panes each, all hung sash style. Inside, the farmhouse features two inglenook hearths and exposed stop-chamfered ceiling beams.

Local climate

Red Lion 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 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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