106, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1984. Farmhouse.
106, High Street
- WRENN ID
- stony-string-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- 106, High Street, Bottisham
- OS grid reference
- TL 545 603
- Coordinates
- 52.2196, 0.26171
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 106 High Street is a farmhouse built in 1725, as noted in a building contract from October 14, 1725, involving the Trustees of St Bartholomew's Hospital and builders William Chapman and William Roberts. In around 1875, a new range was added to the front, obscuring the original facade. The original house is constructed of red brick in English bond and features a steeply pitched gabled roof with tiles and end stacks. It has a symmetrical layout with a kitchen and parlour on either side of a narrower hall and stairbay, and it stands two storeys tall with attics. The gable ends have later fenestration. The front range from circa 1875 is made of grey brick, also with a tiled roof and end stacks, and is two storeys high. It has raised and shouldered surrounds for three hung sashes, each with four panels, and a central doorway with a raised surround and a round-headed arch.
At the rear, there is an early 18th-century service range with an added storey and raised roof, built of red brick in English bond, which has a straight joint connecting it to the 1725 block. Within the property, there are four early 19th-century cast iron boundary posts, each topped with a bell-shaped finial and a cartouche bearing the initials ST B.H., with one post remaining in its original location. Inside, the house features an original closed-string staircase with turned balusters, a moulded rail, and a square newel with a finial. In the service range, there is a tie beam, likely reused, with mortices for uprights. Building work has confirmed that the openings shown in the elevation from the 1725 building contract match those in the original house, which would have had cross-frame casements. The primary difference from the elevation in the contract is that the house was built with a gabled roof instead of a hipped roof.
Local climate
106, High Street 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 89% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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