1, 3 and 5, Orchard Lane is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1979. A C17-C18 Dovecot and dwellings.
1, 3 and 5, Orchard Lane
- WRENN ID
- pale-timber-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1979
- Type
- Dovecot and dwellings
- Address
- 1, 3 and 5, Orchard Lane, Sawston
- OS grid reference
- TL 487 493
- Coordinates
- 52.12256, 0.17106
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 1, 3, and 5 on Orchard Lane are a former dovehouse that has been converted into two dwellings. This building dates from the 17th or 18th century and was altered in the 19th century, during which an additional range of two cottages was added to the left side. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a plain tiled saddleback roof. It stands two storeys high and features two 19th-century doors on the left and right sides, along with two ground floor and three first floor horizontal sliding sash windows. A ridge chimney stack is present. The dovehouse may be located on the site of an earlier dovehouse at Monkes Ortyarde.
Local climate
1, 3 and 5, Orchard Lane sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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