Melcam is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. A 18th century and 19th century Residential.
Melcam
- WRENN ID
- over-bailey-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1985
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Melcam, 8, Mortlock Street, Melbourn
- OS grid reference
- TL 382 446
- Coordinates
- 52.08308, 0.01673
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Melcam is a cottage located on Mortlock Street in Melbourn, dating from the 18th or 19th century. It features a timber frame that is roughcast rendered and has a long straw thatched roof, topped with a single flue grey brick ridge stack. The cottage has a single range plan with an entry now located in a lean-to porch on the right side. It is one storey high with an attic and includes two dormers. The windows are two, three-light sub-modern casements. There is a single storey addition on the left side, which is likely from the early 19th century, framed, rendered, and covered with red pantiles.
Local climate
Melcam 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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