17 and 18, Magdalene Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1972. House.

17 and 18, Magdalene Street

WRENN ID
cold-brick-solstice
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cambridge
Constituency
Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 November 1972
Type
House
OS grid reference
TL 446 590
Coordinates
52.21043, 0.1153
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

17 and 18 Magdalene Street are early 19th-century buildings constructed of grey gault brick. No 17 features three storeys with two windows and 19th-century sash windows, along with a modern shopfront. It has a parapet with a band, but the roof is not visible. No 18 also has three storeys, but with four windows and 19th-century sash windows, and it includes a 19th-century shopfront and a hipped slate roof. Together, Nos 13 to 18 and Nos 20 to 31 form a group.

Local climate

17 and 18, Magdalene Street 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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