A five-bedroom Cambridge home standing on part of the Abbey Road works site where Brian Lister developed some of Britain’s most celebrated sports-racing cars has come onto the market.
No. 28 Abbey Road is being offered through Yopa at offers in the region of £1 million. The detached property extends to approximately 1,933 sq ft including its garage and is offered with no onward chain. It also has off-road parking, a private east-facing rear garden and a position close to the River Cam.
The address has a remarkable connection with British motor racing. The George Lister engineering business occupied the historic 28–30 Abbey Road site, where Brian Lister began constructing competition cars in the 1950s.
Lister’s lightweight sports racers became famous internationally and were driven by leading names including Sir Stirling Moss and Archie Scott Brown.
Scott Brown was one of the most gifted and courageous sports-car drivers of his generation. Born with significant physical disabilities, he competed at the highest level and became closely associated with Brian Lister and the Cambridge-built cars. He died in 1958 from injuries sustained in a racing accident at Spa-Francorchamps.
His extraordinary life later acquired a cinematic footnote. In July 2007, Motor Sport reported that California-based Yellow Sky Productions had optioned Robert Edwards’s biography, Archie and the Listers, as the basis of a feature film. The report also said screenplay discussions were under way with Oscar-winning Gosford Park writer Julian Fellowes.
Today, No. 28 stands on part of this historic site, giving its next owner an unusually tangible connection with the Lister story.
The property’s garage adds a particularly appealing possibility for a classic-car enthusiast: room at the historic address for a period Lister or one of the marque’s modern continuation cars. The Lister name remains active today, with a continuing engineering connection to the Cambridge area.
“For many Lister enthusiasts, this is hallowed ground,” said one enthusiastic visitor to the property.
For anyone who has ever wanted to live on a small but significant piece of British motor-racing history—and perhaps keep a classic or modern continuation Lister in the garage—No. 28 offers a particularly unusual opportunity.
Property listing, photographs and virtual tour:
https://www.yopa.co.uk/properties/details/505400
The property is marketed by Dan Burbridge of Yopa Cambridge on 07873 566144 or cambridge@yopa.co.uk.
Historical film reference:
Motor Sport, July 2007
