Buildings Surrounding Tunwell's Court is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1950. Street frontage, building. 2 related planning applications.

Buildings Surrounding Tunwell's Court

WRENN ID
buried-finial-ivy
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cambridge
Constituency
Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1950
Type
Street frontage, building
Address
Buildings Surrounding Tunwell's Court, Trumpington Street, CB2 1QY
OS grid reference
TL 449 579
Coordinates
52.20048, 0.11992
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos 33 and 34 on Trumpington Street are a pair of buildings dating from the 16th century. They are two storeys high with attics, constructed from timber framing and plaster, and feature a tiled roof. The street frontage has three windows, including two hung sashes, and a central passageway on the ground floor leading to Tunwell's Court, flanked by 19th-century shop windows. The buildings have two hipped dormers and a timber dentil cornice. The rear wings connect to Tunwell's Court and are part of a range of 17th and 18th-century buildings. The structures are also timber framed and plastered, with some areas refaced in brick, and have sliding sash windows and a tiled roof. Inside, there is a room with bolection moulded panelling from around 1700. Nos 30, 31, 33 to 40 form a cohesive group.

Local climate

Buildings Surrounding Tunwell's Court 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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