Biggen Stud Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1984. Farmhouse.

Biggen Stud Farmhouse

WRENN ID
white-courtyard-storm
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
Biggen Stud Farmhouse, Newmarket Road, Fordham
OS grid reference
TL 631 688
Coordinates
52.29388, 0.39055
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Biggen Stud Farmhouse is a cottage ornee farmhouse dating from the 18th century, with additions from the 19th century. It features a combination of plastered timber-frame, gault brick, and clunch, along with red brick stacks. The original building has a thatched, hipped roof, while the outshuts are slated. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has three symmetrical bays. There are three casement windows on the first floor and two on the ground floor, all set in two-centred arches. A modern, thatched and glazed closed porch with a boarded oak door is present. Additionally, there are two doors with two-centred arches in matching wings on either side. The interior has been altered around 1934, although some 18th-century doors remain.

Local climate

Biggen Stud Farmhouse 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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