Clare College, Screen and Gates Fronting Queen's Road is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1972. Gate. 4 related planning applications.

Clare College, Screen and Gates Fronting Queen's Road

WRENN ID
solemn-stair-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cambridge
Constituency
Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 November 1972
Type
Gate
Address
Clare College, Screen and Gates Fronting Queen's Road, Queens Road, CB3 9AJ
OS grid reference
TL 443 584
Coordinates
52.20512, 0.11121
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Clare College's screen and gates fronting Queen's Road were built around 1930, likely designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott. The structure features buff brick piers topped with stone caps and heavy sculpted finials. It includes a wrought-iron screen with three pairs of gates.

Local climate

Clare College, Screen and Gates Fronting Queen's Road 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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