Peterhouse, Entrance Screen to First Court is a Grade I listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1972. A 1848 modification (former wall removed and replaced by railings) Entrance screen. 1 related planning application.
Peterhouse, Entrance Screen to First Court
- WRENN ID
- wild-gravel-sparrow
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 1972
- Type
- Entrance screen
- Period
- 1848 modification (former wall removed and replaced by railings)
- OS grid reference
- TL 449 579
- Coordinates
- 52.20104, 0.11887
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The entrance screen to the First Court of Peterhouse is a Grade I listed structure built in 1751. It features two stone gateways with round-headed archways, flanked by Tuscan pilasters and topped with pedimented entablatures. The wrought-iron gates have plain vertical bars and decorative scroll-work. In 1848, the wall that used to be between the gateways was taken down and replaced with railings that have plain uprights and spiked cresting, which resemble the existing railings on either side.
Local climate
Peterhouse, Entrance Screen to First Court 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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