1-16, Melbourne Place is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1972. House. 28 related planning applications.
1-16, Melbourne Place
- WRENN ID
- grim-hall-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- 1-16, Melbourne Place, CB1 1EQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 455 583
- Coordinates
- 52.2043, 0.12916
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Melbourne Place numbers 1 to 16, dating to approximately 1840, comprise a terrace of grey gault brick houses. Numbers 15 and 16 have been painted. The houses are two storeys high with a basement, and generally have one window each, although numbers 10 and 16 have two windows and a central door. The windows are predominantly sash windows with glazing bars. Number 6 has a late 19th-century stucco canted bay and stucco window architraves. Some properties feature panelled doors and fanlights, and number 16 has modern reeded pilasters. The roofs are slate.
Local climate
1-16, Melbourne Place 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 — 19 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 28 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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