59, Wimpole Road is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Cottage.
59, Wimpole Road
- WRENN ID
- brooding-sentry-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 59, Wimpole Road, Barton
- OS grid reference
- TL 408 551
- Coordinates
- 52.17663, 0.05887
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 59 Wimpole Road is a cottage that likely dates from the late 17th century. It is timber-framed with roughcast rendering and a half-hipped reed thatch roof. An early 19th-century grey gault brick stack is present. The cottage has one storey and an attic, featuring two dormers. The doorway, located opposite the stack, is flanked by two 20th-century casement windows.
Local climate
59, Wimpole 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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