26, Newmarket Road is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1972. House. 3 related planning applications.

26, Newmarket Road

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cambridge
Constituency
Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 November 1972
Type
House
Address
26, Newmarket Road, CB5 8DT
OS grid reference
TL 459 587
Coordinates
52.2081, 0.13419
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 26 Newmarket Road is a building dating from around 1840. It is constructed of grey gault brick and features two storeys plus an attic. The ground floor includes two large French windows and a central six-panel door with a fanlight above. Above, there are three sash windows with glazing bars, along with three dormer windows in the attic. The building has string courses at both levels and is topped with a parapet and a slate mansard roof.

Local climate

26, Newmarket Road 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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