Entrance Gateway to the Botanic Gardens Gateway and Screen to the Botanic Garden Facing Trumpington Road is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1972. Gateway, screen. 2 related planning applications.
Entrance Gateway to the Botanic Gardens Gateway and Screen to the Botanic Garden Facing Trumpington Road
- WRENN ID
- carved-entrance-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 1972
- Type
- Gateway, screen
- Address
- Entrance Gateway to the Botanic Gardens Gateway and Screen to the Botanic Garden Facing Trumpington Road, CB2 1JF
- OS grid reference
- TL 452 571
- Coordinates
- 52.19334, 0.12371
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The entrance gateway and screen to the Botanic Gardens, located facing Trumpington Road, dates from around 1765. It features wrought iron gates with a semi-circular overthrow set between rusticated stone piers. These gates were originally part of the Botanic Garden in Free School Lane. The semi-circular cast iron screen, which is set on a red brick base, was added around 1850.
Local climate
Entrance Gateway to the Botanic Gardens Gateway and Screen to the Botanic Garden Facing Trumpington 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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