Fordham House is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1984. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Fordham House
- WRENN ID
- tired-granite-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Fordham House, Newmarket Road, CB7 5LL
- OS grid reference
- TL 628 692
- Coordinates
- 52.29699, 0.3865
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fordham House is a farmhouse constructed in two phases during the 19th century. It is built from gault brick and features low-pitched, hipped slate roofs with seven chimneys. The house has two storeys and boarded eaves supported by shaped brackets. The south-facing entrance facade includes one blind window and two first-floor sixteen-paned hung sash windows, all recessed in cambered gauged brick arches, along with two similar windows on the ground floor. To the left of the main entrance, there is a straight joint indicating an earlier building. The entrance features a six-flush-panelled door with a fanlight that has glazing bars, all set within a double recessed round-headed gauged brick arch with stone imposts. Inside, the early to mid-19th-century details include a staircase and chimney pieces.
Local climate
Fordham House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- 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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