Railings and Gates Round the Senate House is a Grade I listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1950. Railings and gates.
Railings and Gates Round the Senate House
- WRENN ID
- woven-forge-river
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1950
- Type
- Railings and gates
- OS grid reference
- TL 448 584
- Coordinates
- 52.20542, 0.11774
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The railings and gates surrounding the Senate House are notable examples of early cast-iron work in England, likely among the first of their kind. They were re-erected in 1789 and completed in 1792. The design features a dwarf stone wall with Roman Doric standards and plain thick spikes in between. The gates are supported by cast-iron pedestals.
Local climate
Railings and Gates Round the Senate 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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