The Oak Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1972. Public house. 1 related planning application.

The Oak Public House

WRENN ID
second-ember-azure
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cambridge
Constituency
Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 November 1972
Type
Public house
Address
The Oak Public House, 6, Lensfield Road, CB2 1EG
OS grid reference
TL 454 577
Coordinates
52.19924, 0.12706
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Oak Public House is an 18th-century building located on Lensfield Road. It is two storeys high with attics and constructed of colourwashed brick. The façade features four 19th-century sash windows, a ground floor band, and a parapet. There are also two gabled dormers and an old tiled roof. The public house has a 19th-century frontage.

Local climate

The Oak Public 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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