Lilac Farm is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Lilac Farm
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-eave-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Lilac Farm, 69, High Street, Orwell, SG8 5QN
- OS grid reference
- TL 366 504
- Coordinates
- 52.13526, -0.00466
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lilac Farm is a cottage dating from the mid to late 17th century. It features a timber frame with plaster rendering and a thatched, half-hipped roof. There is a repaired red brick stack with a string course. The building has a two-bay, lobby entry plan and a later outshut at the rear. It stands two storeys tall and has two 19th-century horizontal sliding sash windows with small panes on the first floor, along with two 20th-century casements on either side of the doorway. Inside, the inglenooks are sealed, but the substantial stop-chamfered joists are exposed and laid flat. The original staircase is located in the lobby, next to the stack.
Local climate
Lilac Farm 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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