Ely House is a Grade II listed building in the Fenland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1983. Farmhouse.

Ely House

WRENN ID
bitter-porch-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Fenland
Constituency
North East Cambridgeshire MP: Steve Barclay (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 October 1983
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Ely House, 158, Lynn Road, Wisbech
OS grid reference
TF 467 103
Coordinates
52.67133, 0.16865
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ely House is an early 18th-century farmhouse located on Lynn Road in Wisbech. It is constructed of local brown brick and features a pantiled roof with high tumbled parapet gables and end stacks. The building is two storeys tall with attics and has a symmetrical facade consisting of five bays in an L-plan layout. There are three flat-roofed casement dormer windows, five original cross-framed casement windows on the first floor, and four similar ground floor windows set in segmental arches. The late 18th-century doorcase has attached wooden columns and an enriched broken pediment, along with a plain round-headed fanlight and a six-panelled door.

At the rear, there is a two-storey extension from 1854, as indicated by a plaque, featuring a red pantiled roof and two gable extensions. The windows here have 19th-century brick labels.

Inside, the right-hand room has complete panelling and a fine late 18th-century chimney piece. There is a sealed kitchen hearth in the rear wing, a 19th-century staircase, and a service wing that includes a dairy to the east. The chimney pieces feature Lambeth tiles, and there is a tiled cupboard in the service wing. The original kitchen door retains its iron hinges.

Local climate

Ely House 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 88% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% 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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