Game Larder About 25 Yards North East of Wimpole Hall is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Game larder.
Game Larder About 25 Yards North East of Wimpole Hall
- WRENN ID
- watchful-brass-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Game larder
- OS grid reference
- TL 336 510
- Coordinates
- 52.14143, -0.04879
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The game larder, located about 25 yards northeast of Wimpole Hall, is a Grade II listed building dating from the mid-18th century. It is constructed of red brick and features pedimented ends with a slate roof and gault brick parapets on the sides. The structure is single-storey and consists of two bays, with rusticated corner pilasters and dividing bays. There is one window at the north end and two windows on the west side wall, each set under gauged brick round-headed arches, with glazing bars on the fixed lights. A lunette window is positioned above the north end window. Access is provided through an entry at the south end, which opens into the domestic courtyard. The building is currently used as a store.
Local climate
Game Larder About 25 Yards North East of Wimpole Hall 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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