Church Army Hostel. is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1972. Hostel. 3 related planning applications.
Church Army Hostel.
- WRENN ID
- dusk-grate-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 1972
- Type
- Hostel
- Address
- Church Army Hostel., Fair Street, CB1 1HA
- OS grid reference
- TL 455 587
- Coordinates
- 52.20757, 0.12912
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church Army Hostel, located at 1-5 Fair Street, was built around 1820 by Charles Humphrey as part of the Doll’s Close development, which is associated with Maid’s Causeway. The building is constructed of grey gault brick and comprises a uniform frontage of five houses, each with two bays, followed by a wide segmental-headed carriage arch and the hostel itself, which spans five bays. The building is two storeys high with a basement. Windows are sash windows with glazing bars. Each house has a timber doorcase with side pilasters and a plain entablature. The roof is slate-covered. The north gable end of No 1 forms the original east end-feature of Maid's Causeway. A broad wall arch with an elliptical head and pediment features over a window on each floor, with the basement and first-floor windows partially concealed within the arch. The return wall of the hostel in Willow Walk is of three bays and includes two pilaster strips. A carved nameplate bears the street name.
Local climate
Church Army Hostel. 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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