Willow House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.
Willow House
- WRENN ID
- bitter-gateway-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Willow House, 17, High Street, Bourn, CB23 2SQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 325 565
- Coordinates
- 52.19092, -0.06298
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willow House is a house dating from around 1700, with alterations and additions from the 19th and 20th centuries. It features an exposed timber-frame structure with a red brick plinth and a plain tile half-hipped roof. There is an end stack on the left side and a red brick ridge stack located to the right of the center. The house has two storeys and attics, along with a rear kitchen wing. The entrance door is boarded and from the 20th century, while there are three hung sash windows on both the ground and first floors. Inside, many details are from the 19th century, including the staircase, reed-moulded boxed ceiling beams, and panelled doors. There is an inglenook hearth in the room on the right. The layout is a three-unit plan with a timber frame, similar to No. 2 Orchard House.
Local climate
Willow House 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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