Gateway Onto Trumpington Road at the Leys School is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1972. Gateway.
Gateway Onto Trumpington Road at the Leys School
- WRENN ID
- drifting-niche-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 1972
- Type
- Gateway
- OS grid reference
- TL 451 575
- Coordinates
- 52.19704, 0.12212
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gateway onto Trumpington Road at The Leys School is a Grade II listed structure, built around 1913, likely designed by Sir Aston Webb. It features a rusticated red brick pier topped with stone ball finials. The gateway includes wrought-iron double gates with an overthrow that displays a coat-of-arms. This gateway is situated in front of the King George V Gateway and is contemporary with it.
Local climate
Gateway Onto Trumpington Road at the Leys School 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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