The conservation area and listed houses
Bottisham has a designated conservation area and 25 listed buildings, all Grade II apart from the Grade I Church of Holy Trinity. Before a colour change on a listed house, or painting brick that has never been painted, ask East Cambridgeshire District Council, and do the same inside the conservation area. We paint sample patches on a discreet section first.
Older masonry should be able to breathe, so we pick finishes to suit and fill cracks with compatible materials. Our limewash and mineral paint page explains the options for traditional walls.
Park Estate homes and rooflines
Just under half the village's houses are on the 1960s Park Estate. On houses like these the work is often fascias, soffits, doors and window frames rather than whole walls, and Graham's survey notes failed paint, gaps where water gets in and any soft timber. Rot is cut out and repaired by our carpenter, then we paint.
Algae on shaded walls is cleaned off with an anti-fungal jet wash and the masonry left to dry, the same treatment as an exterior we cleared of mould in Cambridge.
Bottisham at a glance
- 8 milesby road from our Landbeach base, about 12 minutesOSRM routing
- 93%are houses rather than flatsCensus 2021
- 43%of homes are detachedCensus 2021
- 1conservation arealocal council
How we approach exterior painting
Every elevation is checked and the repairs written into the quotation. We wash with an anti-fungal solution, let the walls dry, scrape and sand loose paint and prime bare timber. Masonry paint goes on brick and render, and the roofline is painted while access is up. Exterior work is booked for the drier months and stopped if rain threatens. The full method, products and FAQs are on our exterior painting page.