The Old Courthouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Courthouse
- WRENN ID
- open-stone-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Courthouse, 123, High Street, Bottisham, CB25 9BA
- OS grid reference
- TL 547 603
- Coordinates
- 52.2198, 0.26337
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Courthouse is a former magistrates court and offices, likely a police station, built in 1858. It is now a house. The building is constructed from gault brick and features low pitch, slate roofs. The layout includes a single storey office or police station at the front and a two storey courtroom at the rear. The office has chanelled rustication on the quoins, walls, and voussoirs of the window arches. The low pitch roof has a parapet. The front wall has three round headed bays, each with a band at impost height. Each bay contains a recessed fixed light window with a pivot casement. The courtroom at the rear is made of similar brick but lacks the rustication and has a hipped low pitch slate roof. It is two storeys high with pilaster strips at the corners and between the two bays on the side elevations. Each bay features round headed arches leading to two fixed light windows with pivot casements. The main entrances are located in flanking porches at the front of the slightly projecting courtroom.
Local climate
The Old Courthouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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