Fence Along Street Frontage of the Main Block of the Fitzwilliam Museum is a Grade I listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1950. A C19 Fence.
Fence Along Street Frontage of the Main Block of the Fitzwilliam Museum
- WRENN ID
- bitter-lead-auburn
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1950
- Type
- Fence
- OS grid reference
- TL 449 579
- Coordinates
- 52.20036, 0.11977
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The fence along the street frontage of the main block of the Fitzwilliam Museum was built between 1841 and 1842. It features a stone balustrade resting on a moulded plinth, which is divided by pedestals, creating five bays on either side of the central gateway. The base of the plinth is vermiculated. The fence includes cast iron gates and a cheveaux-de-frise mounted on cast-iron brackets.
Local climate
Fence Along Street Frontage of the Main Block of the Fitzwilliam Museum 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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