15, Dolphin Lane is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. Cottage.

15, Dolphin Lane

WRENN ID
sunken-gable-mallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 October 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
15, Dolphin Lane, Melbourn
OS grid reference
TL 379 446
Coordinates
52.0828, 0.01234
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 15 Dolphin Lane is a cottage dating from the 18th century. It features a timber frame set on a brick plinth, with walls rendered in lathe and plaster. The left-hand gable end is clad in weatherboarding. The roof is thatched and has a half-hipped design, topped with a grey brick axial ridge stack. The cottage has a single range and a lobby entry plan, standing two storeys tall. At the first floor, there are two casement windows from the mid to late 20th century. The ground floor has two mid-19th century hung sash windows on either side of the doorway, which is also from the mid-19th century. The interior has not been seen.

Local climate

15, Dolphin Lane 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 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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