40, 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.

40, High Street

WRENN ID
salt-step-root
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Huntingdonshire
Constituency
Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 November 1982
Type
Cottage
Address
40, High Street, Hemingford Grey, PE28 9BJ
OS grid reference
TL 293 706
Coordinates
52.31848, -0.10363
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a seventeenth-century cottage located on the south side of High Street, Hemingford Grey. It is a three-unit building constructed with a timber frame that has been covered with colour-washed brick. The roof is thatched, with a ridge stack. A dentil eaves cornice runs along the roofline. The cottage has two dormer windows with horizontal sliding sash windows and glazing bars. At ground floor level, there are three horizontal sliding sash windows with glazing bars. A plank door provides access to the interior. Inside, the cottage features chamfered spine beams with run-out stops and a large inglenook hearth. Attached to the left-hand side is a single-storey barn constructed of brick and covered with pantiles.

Local climate

40, 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 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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  • Sale history — 11 transactions since 1996
  • 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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