16-24, Fitzwilliam Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1972. House. 5 related planning applications.

16-24, Fitzwilliam Street

WRENN ID
narrow-truss-oak
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cambridge
Constituency
Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 November 1972
Type
House
Address
16-24, Fitzwilliam Street, CB2 1QH
OS grid reference
TL 450 579
Coordinates
52.20053, 0.12073
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is an early 19th century terrace of small houses, numbered 16 to 24, on Fitzwilliam Street. The buildings are three storeys high with attics and basements, constructed of gault brick and topped with slate roofs. The windows have flat brick arches and glazing bars. Balconies feature wrought iron railings, and the doorways are round-headed, retaining many original flush panelled doors and ornamental metal fanlights. A simple iron railing, including vases on stanchions, runs along the front of the basement area. Number 22 has a panel indicating that Charles Darwin lived there from 1836 to 1837. The terrace is a good example of early 19th century terraced houses, and together with the other listed buildings on Fitzwilliam Street, forms a notable group. Roofs are not visible.

Local climate

16-24, Fitzwilliam Street 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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