28 and 29, Portugal Place is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1972. House. 1 related planning application.
28 and 29, Portugal Place
- WRENN ID
- seventh-bastion-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- 28 and 29, Portugal Place, CB5 8AF
- OS grid reference
- TL 448 589
- Coordinates
- 52.20937, 0.11844
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early to mid-19th century building, forming part of a group of listed buildings in Portugal Place. Constructed of grey gault brick, it is two storeys high with an attic, featuring a single window. The windows are sash windows with glazing bars, and there is one attic dormer. The entrance features panelled doors set within arched doorways, with impost mouldings and fanlights above. The roof is a slate mansard roof.
Local climate
28 and 29, Portugal Place 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 — 5 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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