78 and 80, Regent Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1972. Shop.

78 and 80, Regent Street

WRENN ID
brooding-buttress-spindle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cambridge
Constituency
Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 November 1972
Type
Shop
OS grid reference
TL 454 579
Coordinates
52.20028, 0.12626
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos 78 and 80 Regent Street is a building originally designed as a pair but now combined into one shop. It dates from the late 18th century and features a uniform shopfront from the early 19th century. The structure is made of grey gault brick and has three storeys with two windows. It has a slate roof. The shopfront includes a central panelled double door framed by a Doric half-column surround and an entablature above. On either side of the door are small-paned shop windows.

Local climate

78 and 80, Regent 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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