Bury House is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1952. House. 3 related planning applications.
Bury House
- WRENN ID
- eastward-gargoyle-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bury House, Main Street, Downham, CB6 2ST
- OS grid reference
- TL 525 841
- Coordinates
- 52.43375, 0.24313
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bury House is a house dated by a stone plaque to 'RC 1700', located on the south side of Main Street in Downham. It features early 19th century elements along with renovations and alterations from around 1900. The building is constructed of rendered brick and has plain tile roofs, incorporating materials from the demolished Bishops of Ely's Palace buildings.
The house is two storeys high, with attics and a cellar, and has a three-unit plan that includes a rear kitchen. The original lobby entry was sealed around 1900 when the main entrance was moved to the west side. The gables have tumbled parapets, with end stacks and a ridge stack positioned to the left of centre. A closed gabled porch from the 19th century features a moulded round arched doorway inscribed with 'Bury House' and has double doors.
There are three three-light casement windows with patterned glazing bars on the upper panes, along with three smaller similar windows on the first floor. Inside, many details are from the 19th century, including reused 15th-century timber, some of which has double ogee-moulding, found in the side purlin roof and floor frames.
Local climate
Bury House 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
- 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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