Castle Brae is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1972. House. 2 related planning applications.

Castle Brae

WRENN ID
cold-granite-furze
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cambridge
Constituency
Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 November 1972
Type
House
Address
Castle Brae, 5, Chesterton Lane, CB4 3AA
OS grid reference
TL 446 591
Coordinates
52.21184, 0.1153
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Castle Brae is a mid to late 19th-century building designed in the Tudor style. It is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and features blue brick decorations. The building has two storeys and an attic, with three and five-light mullion and transom windows. A projecting porch adds to its architectural interest, and it is topped with a tiled roof.

Local climate

Castle Brae 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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