Headmaster's House at the Leys School is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1972. House. 8 related planning applications.

Headmaster's House at the Leys School

WRENN ID
waiting-pillar-grove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cambridge
Constituency
Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 November 1972
Type
House
Address
Headmaster's House at the Leys School, Trumpington Road, CB2 7AD
OS grid reference
TL 450 574
Coordinates
52.19649, 0.12095
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Headmaster's House at The Leys School, built around 1820, is a two-storey building constructed of grey gault brick on a stone plinth. It features a three-bay front, with the side bays projecting and topped with pediments. The house has sash windows with glazing bars. A single-storey stone screen across the central bay forms a porch supported by two Doric columns. There is an original two-storey bay on the south front and a continuous wide projecting eaves cornice on shaped brackets. The roof is slate. Inside, the house boasts a fine staircase, good doorways and fireplaces, enriched plaster cornices, and barrel-vaulted cellars. There are later additions, including a bay window on the east and a single-storey, two-window projection on the north.

Local climate

Headmaster's House 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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