Old Bull House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. House, formerly inn.

Old Bull House

WRENN ID
tattered-latch-merlin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Type
House, formerly inn
Address
Old Bull House, 19, Church End, Gamlingay
OS grid reference
TL 243 524
Coordinates
52.15679, -0.18431
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Bull House is a house that was formerly an inn, dating from the mid to late 17th century and extended at the rear in the 19th century. The building is timber framed, rendered, and covered in white brick, with the front painted. The northeast end features red brick. It has a plain tile roof and a red brick ridge stack that has been repaired, consisting of four diagonally set linked shafts on a rectangular base with a moulded cornice. The layout includes a hall and a southwest crosswing, and the house stands two storeys high.

On the first floor of the hall range, there are two modern windows, and the entrance features a baffle entry doorway. The crosswing has a modern window on each of its two storeys, and the west wall of the crosswing includes a first-floor three-light ovolo mullion window. A lean-to cellar was added at the rear in the 19th century and was raised to two storeys in the mid to late 20th century, with the crosswing also being extended at the rear during the 20th century.

Inside, there is an inglenook hearth that connects to a parlour hearth with a shaped rear wall. The two chambers above also retain their original hearths. The building features downward wall bracing and a clasped side purlin roof.

Local climate

Old Bull 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% 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 0.4°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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