2, King's Parade is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1950. Residential.

2, King's Parade

WRENN ID
tall-shingle-meadow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cambridge
Constituency
Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1950
Type
Residential
OS grid reference
TL 448 583
Coordinates
52.20397, 0.11777
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 2 King's Parade is a building dating from around 1800. It has three storeys and is constructed of painted brick with a tiled roof. The façade features a plain cornice with mutules and three windows with glazing bars, while the upper storey has shutters. There is a modern doorcase designed in the 18th-century style. The overall appearance of the front is Neo-Georgian. Inside, there are some original fittings and plasterwork. This building is part of a group of listed buildings on the east side of King's Parade.

Local climate

2, King's Parade 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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