Village Lock Up is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Lock up.
Village Lock Up
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-outpost-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Lock up
- Address
- Village Lock Up, High Street, Fen Drayton
- OS grid reference
- TL 338 681
- Coordinates
- 52.29552, -0.03875
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Village Lock Up is a 19th-century building located on the south side of High Street in Fen Drayton. It is constructed of gault brick and features a slate roof. The structure is single storey with a square plan that includes two cells. There are two boarded doors at the west-facing entrances, each with original iron bars above rectangular grills. The building is adorned with a dentil brick eaves cornice and has shallow parapet gables.
Local climate
Village Lock Up 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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