81 and 83, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Fenland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1985. House, shop. 1 related planning application.
81 and 83, High Street
- WRENN ID
- solitary-attic-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Fenland
- Constituency
- North East Cambridgeshire MP: Steve Barclay (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1985
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- 81 and 83, High Street, March, PE15 9LB
- OS grid reference
- TL 416 964
- Coordinates
- 52.54711, 0.0872
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 81 and 83 High Street is a house and shops built in the late 18th century and early 20th century. The building is constructed from narrow gault brick in English bond and features a steeply pitched tiled roof with tumbled parapet gable ends and end stacks. The front is covered with asbestos slates, while the rear has Welsh slates. It has two storeys and attics, with a band running between the storeys. There are three windows with segmental arches and flush frame hung sashes. The original central doorway is also in a segmental arch and has a door made of six raised and fielded panels, flanked by paired shop fronts and doorways that were inserted in the early 20th century.
Local climate
81 and 83, 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- 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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