4-12, Tennis Court Road is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1967. Row of houses. 9 related planning applications.

4-12, Tennis Court Road

WRENN ID
tilted-plinth-saffron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cambridge
Constituency
Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 May 1967
Type
Row of houses
OS grid reference
TL 450 580
Coordinates
52.20118, 0.12134
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Numbers 4 to 12 on Tennis Court Road are a group of buildings dating from around 1825, designed by Charles Humfrey. They are two storeys high and constructed from gault brick, topped with a slate roof. Each building features two windows on the first floor, with glazing bars. The ground floor has similar windows and a round-headed doorway, with the ground floor windows having shutters. Notably, number 6 has two ground floor windows. The buildings have four-panel doors and retain their original wooden fences and gates.

Local climate

4-12, Tennis Court 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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