20, Dolphin Lane is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1983. A C19 Cottage.
20, Dolphin Lane
- WRENN ID
- vast-outpost-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 20, Dolphin Lane, Melbourn
- OS grid reference
- TL 379 446
- Coordinates
- 52.08306, 0.01243
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 20 Dolphin Lane is a cottage, originally part of a pair, dating from around 1800. It features a timber frame that is plaster rendered, sitting on a brick plinth, and has a long straw thatch roof with a single flue grey brick stack at each end. The building is two storeys high, with two small pane casements on the first floor and two three-light windows on the ground floor. One of the original doorways now has a later door, while the other doorway has been blocked. To the left, there is an adjoining outhouse likely made from similar materials and also with a thatched roof.
Local climate
20, Dolphin Lane 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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