26 and 28, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1978. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
26 and 28, High Street
- WRENN ID
- floating-dormer-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peterborough
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1978
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 26 and 28, High Street, Maxey, City of Peterborough, PE6 9EE
- OS grid reference
- TF 129 081
- Coordinates
- 52.65897, -0.33076
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 26 and 28 High Street comprise two cottages situated on the north side of the street. No 28 is a cottage dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. It is built of coursed stone rubble with a thatched roof featuring coped gable ends. The cottage has one storey and an attic, with two small gabled dormers. It has two windows, a 4-light casement window from the 19th century, a sash window, and a central modern door. Brick chimney stacks are located at each end. No 26 adjoins it to the east and is an early 19th-century cottage built of coursed stone rubble with a lower-pitched Collyweston stone roof with gabled ends. It has two storeys and one window range, featuring an early 19th-century 3-light casement window and a plank door. A brick chimney stack is at one end. No 26 is included in the listing for group value.
Local climate
26 and 28, High Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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