Three Horseshoes Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1986. A Post-medieval Farmhouse, cottage. 3 related planning applications.

Three Horseshoes Farmhouse

WRENN ID
solemn-step-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 April 1986
Type
Farmhouse, cottage
Period
Post-medieval
Address
Three Horseshoes Farmhouse, Horseshoes Lane, Weston Colville, CB21 5NU
OS grid reference
TL 627 524
Coordinates
52.14594, 0.37773
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Three Horseshoes Farmhouse is a cottage that was formerly a public house, dating from the 17th century, with a rear extension added in the late 17th century. A cellar was added in the 19th century at the northeast end. The building is timber framed, plaster rendered, and has a long straw thatch roof with half hipped sections. It features a ridge stack and is one storey with an attic, including one eyebrow dormer and one full gable dormer. There are four ground floor windows, one of which has a 19th-century iron casement, along with a baffle entry doorway. The kitchen wing, likely added in the late 17th to 18th century, has undergone significant alterations and is also thatched. This wing was extended on the southwest side in 1939. Inside, there is heavy ceiling framing in two bays at the south end of the main range, with back-to-back hearths and broad stop-chamfered main beams.

Local climate

Three Horseshoes Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 1 transaction since 2007
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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