Wall at Abbey House Fronting Abbey Road and Beche Road is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1972. Wall.
Wall at Abbey House Fronting Abbey Road and Beche Road
- WRENN ID
- half-bailey-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 1972
- Type
- Wall
- OS grid reference
- TL 461 589
- Coordinates
- 52.20924, 0.13812
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The wall at Abbey House, which fronts Abbey Road and Beche Road, is likely from the 18th century. It is constructed of stone with some brick insets and features a brick coping. There are two pairs of stone gate piers topped with ball finials.
Local climate
Wall at Abbey House Fronting Abbey Road and Beche 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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