5, Market Hill is a Grade I listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1950. A Late C17 with decorative work dated 1688 House. 7 related planning applications.
5, Market Hill
- WRENN ID
- still-barrel-cedar
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1950
- Type
- House
- Period
- Late C17 with decorative work dated 1688
- Address
- 5, Market Hill, CB2 3NJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 449 584
- Coordinates
- 52.20543, 0.11961
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 5 Market Hill is a late 17th-century building that stands three storeys tall with attics. The front is tile hung and features a modern slate roof. On the second floor, there are two windows, and on the first floor, there are two windows along with a central doorway that opens onto a balcony adorned with attractive wrought iron railings. The windows have modern sashes, and the doorway is topped with a shell hood supported by carved brackets, featuring a cartouche shield with cherubs and dated 1688. Inside, the front room on the first floor boasts a fine ornamental plaster ceiling, also dated 1688, which is likely the work of Henry Doogood. This room is lined with bolection-moulded panelling. The exterior includes a parapet with a modillion cornice and one attic dormer. There is a modern shop front at the ground level.
Local climate
5, Market Hill 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 — 2 transactions since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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