The Whim is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1972. House.
The Whim
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-wicket-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Whim, 22, Green Street
- OS grid reference
- TL 448 585
- Coordinates
- 52.20641, 0.1185
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Whim is a mid to late 19th-century building located on Green Street. It is designed in the Venetian Gothic style and constructed from grey gault brick. The building has two storeys and features three windows, each in pointed arch openings with drip-moulds above, fitted with sash windows. There is a pointed arch door and a dentil eaves cornice, topped by a slate roof. The Whim is part of a group that includes Nos 22 to 27 consecutively and No 10 Trinity Street.
Local climate
The Whim 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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