Wanstead House is a Grade II* listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1950. A Georgian House. 1 related planning application.
Wanstead House
- WRENN ID
- night-cinder-moth
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1950
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Wanstead House, 2, Hills Road, CB2 1JP
- OS grid reference
- TL 455 576
- Coordinates
- 52.19815, 0.12804
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wanstead House, built around 1825, is a two-storey building made of gault brick with plaster dressings and a hipped slate roof. The front is symmetrically designed, featuring a cornice with dentils and modillions, three windows with moulded architraves and glazing bars, and a central doorway. The doorway has an eared architrave and swags on the frieze above, flanked by fluted Corinthian columns that support an entablature with a pulvinated frieze and dentilled cornice. This building is particularly significant as it includes features from Colen Campbell's first major work, Wanstead House in Essex, which was demolished in 1824. Notable elements include the entrance doorcase, other doorcases, window architraves, panelling, and plasterwork, with the dining room being especially rich in these fittings. The interior also features marble fireplaces and a fine wrought-iron balustrade on the staircase, along with some good fittings from 1825. Wanstead House is part of a group with Nos 2 to 22 (even).
Local climate
Wanstead House 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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