Gonville and Caius College, Wall of Master's Garden Fronting Trinity Hall Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1972. A C16 College wall.

Gonville and Caius College, Wall of Master's Garden Fronting Trinity Hall Lane

WRENN ID
sharp-pediment-sedge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cambridge
Constituency
Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 November 1972
Type
College wall
Address
Gonville and Caius College, Wall of Master's Garden Fronting Trinity Hall Lane, CB2 1TJ
OS grid reference
TL 447 585
Coordinates
52.20587, 0.1164
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The wall of the Master's Garden at Gonville and Caius College, which faces Trinity Hall Lane, is constructed of clunch rubble and is topped with 16th-century and later red brick.

Local climate

Gonville and Caius College, Wall of Master's Garden Fronting Trinity Hall Lane 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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