68, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1983. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
68, High Street
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-rampart-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 68, High Street, Wicken, CB7 5XR
- OS grid reference
- TL 568 707
- Coordinates
- 52.31267, 0.29883
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 68 High Street is an early 19th-century cottage built of yellow gault brick, topped with a thatched roof made of reed. The cottage features end stacks and end parapets on kneelers. It is one storey high with attics and has a symmetrical front with three dormers that contain 20th-century casements. On either side of the central doorway, there are two flush frame hung sashes, each with sixteen panes. The original reeded doorcase is adorned with boss enrichments at the corners.
Local climate
68, High Street sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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