The Merton Arms Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1972. Public house.

The Merton Arms Public House

WRENN ID
floating-thatch-blackthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cambridge
Constituency
Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 November 1972
Type
Public house
Address
The Merton Arms Public House, 25, Northampton Street, CB3 0AD
OS grid reference
TL 444 590
Coordinates
52.21031, 0.11339
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Merton Arms Public House is a 18th-century building located at No. 25 Northampton Street. It features a timber-framed structure with a 20th-century public house frontage and is plastered above. The building has two storeys and three windows, which are sashes with glazing bars. It is topped with a hipped tile roof. The Merton Arms is part of a group that includes Nos 1 to 19 and Nos 21 to 30 on the same street.

Local climate

The Merton Arms Public House 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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