The Fountain Public House is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1983. Public house. 1 related planning application.
The Fountain Public House
- WRENN ID
- standing-bastion-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1983
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Fountain Public House, Fountain Lane, Soham, CB7 5DS
- OS grid reference
- TL 593 732
- Coordinates
- 52.33424, 0.33671
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fountain Public House is part of the rear range of a 16th-century inn, which was mostly destroyed by a fire in 1900. The building features a timber frame that is cased in yellow gault brick from the early 19th century, with some parts rebuilt around 1900, incorporating the floor frame of the original structure. It has a steeply pitched roof and stands two storeys tall. Inside, the floor frame is made of substantial scantling and displays fine hollow and roll moulding with foliate stops on the main beam. The joists, which also have similar moulding, are laid flat. One room contains early 17th-century square sunken panelling, which has been partly disturbed, along with a fine terracotta Shield of Arms of Torel dated 1583. Below this is a notable late 17th-century bolection moulded fireplace surround.
Local climate
The Fountain Public 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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