26, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1983. A C18 Cottage.
26, High Street
- WRENN ID
- ancient-terrace-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 June 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 26, High Street, Great Paxton
- OS grid reference
- TL 208 636
- Coordinates
- 52.25754, -0.23107
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 26 on High Street is an 18th-century cottage that features a timber frame with roughcast rendering. It has a thatched roof with gault brick stacks at each end. The cottage is two storeys tall, with three modern casement windows on the first floor that are flush with the eaves, and two additional casement windows on either side of a modern door at ground level. The roof has been raised at the rear.
Local climate
26, 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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 0.4°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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