Abbey House is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1950. House. 2 related planning applications.

Abbey House

WRENN ID
winding-timber-frost
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cambridge
Constituency
Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1950
Type
House
Address
Abbey House, Abbey Road, CB5 8HQ
OS grid reference
TL 462 589
Coordinates
52.20912, 0.13851
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Abbey House is a 17th-century building that may include parts from an earlier date. It has two storeys with attics and features a mix of brick and timber-framed construction with plaster. The house is irregularly planned and is said to contain a fragment of the old Priory. The roof is tiled. On the front of the house, there is a brick gable dated 1678, which has bands between the storeys and two brick chimney stacks with grouped rectangular shafts. Inside, there are several panelled rooms and bolection-moulded fireplace surrounds.

Local climate

Abbey 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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