Laburnum House is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1983. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Laburnum House
- WRENN ID
- fallow-flint-rye
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- Laburnum House, Soham, CB7 5UB
- OS grid reference
- TL 545 758
- Coordinates
- 52.35848, 0.26823
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laburnum House is a late 17th-century cottage, originally the Bull public house. It is located in Barway. The building is constructed primarily of yellow gault brick, with some parts painted, and has a steeply pitched slate roof with an original ridge stack made of yellow gault brick. The cottage was originally arranged with three rooms, including a cross-passage between the service wing and the main hall. It is one storey high with an attic, featuring a gabled dormer window. Segmental arches frame two recessed windows, each with three lights. A 19th-century door provides access. Early 19th-century windows with pointed arches to the head of the lights are found in each gable end. The interior retains early 19th-century details, including a screen dividing the hall from the cross-passage, doorways leading to a former buttery and pantry, and built-in window seats (settles) in the hall.
Local climate
Laburnum 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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 — 4 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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