Tower Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1952. A Medieval Farmhouse.
Tower Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- slow-plinth-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
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Tower Farmhouse, Tower Road, Downham
- OS grid reference
- TL 519 841
- Coordinates
- 52.43463, 0.23331
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tower Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 15th century, with walls from the Bishop of Ely's Palace to the west and north incorporated into a 19th-century building. It features gault brick and 15th-century red brick, topped with a plain tile roof that has end stacks and a ridge stack to the right of center. The farmhouse is two storeys high and consists of three bays. On the ground floor, there are three recessed sixteen-paned hung sash windows set in cambered brick arches, and the main entrance is through a closed, gabled porch that contains a four-panelled door. The first floor has three twelve-paned hung sash windows.
Local climate
Tower Farmhouse 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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