26, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 April 1975. House. 6 related planning applications.
26, High Street
- WRENN ID
- old-frieze-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Congleton MP: Sarah Russell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 April 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- 26, High Street, Congleton, CW12 1BD
- OS grid reference
- SJ 859 628
- Coordinates
- 53.16276, -2.21134
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 26 High Street is an early 19th-century building constructed of red brick. It stands three storeys tall and features four sash windows, each adorned with fluted stone keyblocks and slightly cambered brick arches. A stone band runs along the second floor, and the building is topped with bold wooden modillion eaves. It has end gables and chimney stacks, and the roof is covered with slates. The shop fronts have been modernized. This property, along with Nos. 26 to 32, forms a cohesive group.
Local climate
26, High Street sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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