81, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1972. House.
81, High Street
- WRENN ID
- patient-flue-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 1972
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- TL 462 598
- Coordinates
- 52.2178, 0.13977
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 81 High Street is an early 19th-century building that stands two storeys tall and is constructed of gault brick with a slate roof and a parapet. The facade features three windows with glazing bars. There is a porch that includes an entrance doorway flanked by fluted Ionic columns, topped with an entablature that has an enriched frieze, a modillioned cornice, and a pediment. The doorcase is from the 18th century and was taken from an earlier house. The staircase inside is original.
Local climate
81, High Street 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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