Loose Boxes, About 20 Yards North West of Great Barn at Park Farm, at Wimpole Park is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1986. Loose boxes.

Loose Boxes, About 20 Yards North West of Great Barn at Park Farm, at Wimpole Park

WRENN ID
woven-lime-indigo
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 April 1986
Type
Loose boxes
OS grid reference
TL 340 514
Coordinates
52.14491, -0.04232
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

These are loose boxes for deer, built in the early 19th century. They are constructed from gault brick and feature a lean-to slate roof with a dentilled parapet. The structure has ten doorways, each with modern lattice work set under elliptical arches. The loose boxes are located about 20 yards northwest of the Great Barn at Park Farm in Wimpole Park.

Local climate

Loose Boxes, About 20 Yards North West of Great Barn at Park Farm, at Wimpole Park 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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