Footway and Iron Railings Stretching from the Short Street Corner Outside Number 2 to Number 70 is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1972. Footway and railings.
Footway and Iron Railings Stretching from the Short Street Corner Outside Number 2 to Number 70
- WRENN ID
- odd-iron-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 1972
- Type
- Footway and railings
- Address
- Footway and Iron Railings Stretching from the Short Street Corner Outside Number 2 to Number 70, Maid's Causeway, CB1 1LB
- OS grid reference
- TL 454 587
- Coordinates
- 52.2077, 0.12754
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The footway and iron railings extend from the corner of Short Street outside Number 2 to Number 70 on Maid's Causeway. The cobblestone slope features east-iron railings that only reach Number 62. This raised footway is part of the remains of the Banwell Causeway, which was constructed under the will of Dr. Perse in 1615.
Local climate
Footway and Iron Railings Stretching from the Short Street Corner Outside Number 2 to Number 70 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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