7, Orwell Road is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. House.
7, Orwell Road
- WRENN ID
- final-basalt-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- 7, Orwell Road, Barrington
- OS grid reference
- TL 387 495
- Coordinates
- 52.12644, 0.02512
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 7 Orwell Road is a house dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, with later extensions. It features a timber frame, is plaster rendered, and has a reed thatch roof with a 19th-century gault brick stack. The building consists of two bays and is two storeys high, with the first floor jettied and supported by exposed joists and shaped brackets. There is one 19th-century casement window on the first floor and two on the ground floor. The doorway is located in a later addition at the north-west end. Inside, the house displays exposed timber framing and a stop-chamfered main beam along with joists.
Local climate
7, Orwell Road 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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