12, St John's Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1972. A Victorian Commercial building. 4 related planning applications.
12, St John's Street
- WRENN ID
- watchful-cornice-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 1972
- Type
- Commercial building
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- 12, St John's Street, CB2 1TW
- OS grid reference
- TL 448 587
- Coordinates
- 52.20808, 0.11832
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 12 on St John's Street is a mid to late 19th-century building constructed of grey gault brick. It stands four storeys tall and features three windows, with only two on the third floor, all of which are sash windows. The building has a 19th-century shopfront and is adorned with Corinthian pilasters at each corner. Above the upper windows, there are roundels with plaster heads in the tympanum and between the windows. The eaves cornice is modern, and the roof is covered with slate. This building, along with Nos 11 to 17 and Nos 63 to 65 on Bridge Street, forms an important group, particularly as it closes Bridge Street to the south.
Local climate
12, St John's Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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