3, Free School Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1950. House. 5 related planning applications.
3, Free School Lane
- WRENN ID
- muffled-steel-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1950
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- TL 448 582
- Coordinates
- 52.20386, 0.11854
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 3 Free School Lane is a late 16th-century building that stands three storeys tall with attics. It features a timber-framed and plastered structure topped with a tile roof. The gabled front faces the street, with both the first and second floors projecting outward. The original plasterwork is designed in simple rectangular panels. There is one sash window on both the first and second floors, a sliding sash window in the gable, and a small modern window on the ground floor.
Local climate
3, Free School Lane 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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