Carriers is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. Cottage.
Carriers
- WRENN ID
- sharp-paling-fog
- 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
- Carriers, 23, Dolphin Lane, Melbourn
- OS grid reference
- TL 379 446
- Coordinates
- 52.08345, 0.01209
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, known as Carriers, is a cottage dating from around 1800. It features slender timber framing that is rendered and has a tiled mansard roof with a rebuilt red brick chimney. The cottage has a three-bay plan and a lobby-entry, consisting of one storey and an attic. There are two dormers and two casement windows on either side of the door, all of which are from the 20th century. Inside, the small abutting hearths have been rebuilt, and a new staircase has been added in place of the original. To the left, there is a sunken bay that was likely used as a dairy originally and later converted into a cellar when the cottage served as the Carriers public house.
Local climate
Carriers 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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