2-17, Willow Walk is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1972. Terrace. 19 related planning applications.
2-17, Willow Walk
- WRENN ID
- sharp-clay-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 1972
- Type
- Terrace
- Address
- 2-17, Willow Walk, CB1 1LA
- OS grid reference
- TL 455 586
- Coordinates
- 52.20729, 0.12827
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a symmetrical terrace of 1815-17, designed and built by Charles Humphrey as part of the Doll's Close development, which also includes Maid's Causeway, Short Street, and Fair Street. The terrace comprises numbers 2 to 17. It is two storeys high with basements and built of grey gault brick. A central, three-bay pedimented feature sits over numbers 9 and 10, supported by brick pilasters and featuring a timber cornice. Numbers 2 and 17 project slightly, with entrances on their return walls, while the other doorways are arranged in paired elliptical arches, except for those at numbers 9 and 10. There are 25 windows across the entire frontage; they are sash windows with glazing bars, and the ground-floor windows at either end are set in elliptically headed recesses. Most of the doors are panelled. Original interior features remain. The roof is covered in slate. Cast-iron lamp brackets with lanterns are present on numbers 6 and 13.
Local climate
2-17, Willow Walk 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 18 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 19 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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