9, Wilberforce Road is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1996. House. 4 related planning applications.

9, Wilberforce Road

WRENN ID
veiled-tallow-nightshade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cambridge
Constituency
Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 August 1996
Type
House
Address
9, Wilberforce Road, CB3 0EQ
OS grid reference
TL 435 587
Coordinates
52.20858, 0.10002
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a house located at 9 Wilberforce Road, built in 1937 by D. Cosens. It features whitewashed brick laid in Flemish bond and has a bituminous felt roof, representing the Modern Movement style. The house is two storeys tall with a roof patio and has a rectangular plan that includes a recessed corner section at the southeast corner.

The entrance front faces west and consists of a three-window range. To the left of center is a glazed Crittall door beneath a projecting flat porch hood that extends over the garage to the left. To the right of the door are one single-light and one two-light Crittall window. On the first floor, there are two five-light and one two-light Crittall windows. The flat roof has a plain parapet.

The roof patio contains a single room surrounded by wrap-around Crittall windows, topped by a flat canopy roof supported by circular-section iron posts. The south and east elevations feature Crittall windows in various arrangements, including six-light and five-light casements that wrap around the southeast external angle. There is a first-floor balcony on the south elevation, accessed via a four-light Crittall French window.

Inside, there is a plain staircase with a boarded balustrade, and the kitchen fittings remain intact.

Local climate

9, Wilberforce Road 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2000
  • Related listed building consents — 4 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
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  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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