Outbuilding to Number 128 (Parsonage Farmhouse) is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1951. Outbuilding. 2 related planning applications.
Outbuilding to Number 128 (Parsonage Farmhouse)
- WRENN ID
- ancient-stair-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1951
- Type
- Outbuilding
- Address
- Outbuilding to Number 128 (Parsonage Farmhouse), Low Road, Burwell, CB25 0EJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 585 666
- Coordinates
- 52.27516, 0.32199
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an outbuilding dating from the early 16th century, with alterations made in the 19th century and an internal staircase. The original crown-post roof has been replaced with a 20th-century roof. The structure features a timber frame with later brick nogging and consists of four bays, jettied to the north. The ground floor has a rubble clunch wall to the south, which may have been an earlier boundary wall. The east gable wall is made of clunch and is contemporary with the building, while the west gable wall is of brick and replaces the original timber frame. The roof is covered with re-used plain tiles and the building has two storeys.
On the north elevation, there are four three-light diamond mullion windows on the first floor, with others that have been sealed or altered, originally forming an almost complete row of windows without shutters. Similar windows can be found on the south side. One ground floor three-light diamond mullion window remains, along with modern doorways leading to a garage and workshops. The three original ground floor rooms have partitions and axial floor beams, showing evidence of their original openings. The jetty bressumer is moulded and has some brackets still in place, with slightly splayed edge-halved scarf joints to the wall plates. There are three cambered tie beams with mortices for crown posts.
The well-lit upper hall, possibly accessed by an external gable stair, may have served as a weaving gallery, while the ground floor rooms likely had some associated use. The ranges to the east, constructed of clunch, have been partly rebuilt and re-roofed recently. Some moulded clunch from the 14th century in the east gable wall may be remnants from the buildings of St John's Priory.
Local climate
Outbuilding to Number 128 (Parsonage 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 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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