Westcott House is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1967. House. 13 related planning applications.
Westcott House
- WRENN ID
- still-quartz-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Westcott House, Jesus Lane, CB5 8BP
- OS grid reference
- TL 451 588
- Coordinates
- 52.20841, 0.12261
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Westcott House is a Grade II listed building located on the south side of Jesus Lane. Constructed between 1899 and 1929, it features an attractive "Tudor" court designed by architects including Hartwell Simpson, Grayson and Ould, Temple Moore, and Morley Horden, who designed the chapel. The buildings are made of red brick with stone dressings, standing two storeys high with attics. They have three and four light mullion windows with lattice casements and include a central gatehouse. Notable features include two iron footscrapers, one shaped like a pig and the other like a rabbit, though the rabbit is missing its ears. The north range was built in 1899 by Grayson and Ould, the west range by Hartwell Simpson in 1912, and the east range's southern part was completed in 1914 by Temple Moore, with further additions made in 1923, 1926, and 1929 by Morley Horder, including the chapel. Visually, the complex resembles a cloister for the nearby Church of All Saints designed by Bodley. All the buildings on the south side of Jesus Lane form a cohesive group.
Local climate
Westcott 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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- Related listed building consents — 13 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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