Bourney's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1981. House.

Bourney's Farmhouse

WRENN ID
brooding-foundation-thunder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 December 1981
Type
House
Address
Bourney's Farmhouse, 34, High Street, Willingham
OS grid reference
TL 402 702
Coordinates
52.31279, 0.05532
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bourney's Farmhouse is a house built in 1696. It has a timber frame, roughcast and cement render, and a steeply pitched roof that is now covered with asbestos but was originally thatched. The house features original end stacks made of local red brick, mostly cement rendered except for a string course. It has a typical late 17th century T-plan, with the original kitchen located in the rear wing. The front range consists of two rooms on either side of a narrower hall and stair bay. The house has two storeys and three first-floor windows, including a smaller closet window, all from the 19th or 20th century, situated above a central doorway that is flanked by a 19th-century canted bay and a four-pane 19th-century hung sash window. Inside, one of the ground floor rooms, likely the parlour, features a plaster roundel with the date 1696 surrounded by a floral border. The rear range of the house is cellared, and several doors are made from re-used 18th-century raised and fielded panelling.

Local climate

Bourney's 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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