20 and 22, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1982. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
20 and 22, High Street
- WRENN ID
- gentle-obsidian-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 20 and 22, High Street, Somersham, PE28 3JA
- OS grid reference
- TL 364 777
- Coordinates
- 52.38057, 0.00298
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
20 and 22 High Street is a late 17th century cottage that has a 19th century addition on the left side. The building is timber-framed and plaster rendered, with a brick gable end. It features a thatched roof with a parapet and kneelers on the right gable end. The cottage has one ridge stack and a later end stack. It is one storey with attics, including one dormer that has horizontal sliding sashes. At the ground floor, there are two hung sashes with glazing bars. The 19th century addition is made of gault brick.
Local climate
20 and 22, 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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