20, Magdalene Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1962. Residential.

20, Magdalene Street

WRENN ID
ragged-rubblework-autumn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cambridge
Constituency
Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 March 1962
Type
Residential
Address
20, Magdalene Street, CB3 0AG
OS grid reference
TL 446 590
Coordinates
52.21035, 0.11547
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 20 Magdalene Street is a building from the 18th century or earlier. It has two storeys with attics and features a combination of brick and plastered timber-framing, topped with a tiled roof. The first floor displays mock half-timber work and includes one modern three-light window. There is a gabled dormer above, and the shop front has a door on the left side, with a window flanked by pilasters that support a well-crafted moulded wood cornice. The interior has been modernised. This building is part of a group that includes Nos. 13 to 18 and Nos. 20 to 31 Magdalene Street.

Local climate

20, 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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