Old Needhams School (Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely County Council Teacher's Centre) is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. School. 3 related planning applications.
Old Needhams School (Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely County Council Teacher's Centre)
- WRENN ID
- last-lead-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- School
- Address
- Old Needhams School (Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely County Council Teacher's Centre), Back Hill
- OS grid reference
- TL 540 798
- Coordinates
- 52.3952, 0.26288
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Needhams School, now the Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely County Council Teacher's Centre, is an 18th-century brick building designed in a T-shaped plan. It is fronted with Haddenham bricks and features red brick dressings. The front displays an inscription about the endowment of the house along with the date 1740. The building has two storeys and an eight-window range, with mullioned and transomed casements that include leaded lights. A raised brick band runs between the storeys, and the roof is tiled.
Local climate
Old Needhams School (Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely County Council Teacher's Centre) 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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