1, River Lane is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1984. House.
1, River Lane
- WRENN ID
- second-alcove-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- 1, River Lane, Fordham
- OS grid reference
- TL 631 702
- Coordinates
- 52.30645, 0.39171
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 1 River Lane is a house that was originally an inn, dating from the early to mid 19th century. It features flint and clunch walls that are plastered, with brick quoins that are painted. The building has hipped slate roofs and is two storeys high with a double pile plan; the rear of the building may be older. The façade has three symmetrical bays and two stacks at the rear. On the first floor, there are three sixteen-paned hung sash windows set in recessed cambered plastered arches, while the ground floor has two larger windows. The entrance door has four raised and fielded panels, topped by an elliptical fanlight with glazing bars.
Local climate
1, River Lane sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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