The Guildhall is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
The Guildhall
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Guildhall, 36, High Street, Barrington, CB22 7QX
- OS grid reference
- TL 393 496
- Coordinates
- 52.12795, 0.03363
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Guildhall is a cottage, likely dating to 1657. It is constructed with a timber frame, now rendered with lath and plaster, and has a long straw thatched roof, half-hipped in form. A distinctive red brick ridge stack, composed of diagonally-set shafts, rises from the roof. The building has a single-room range and a four-bay plan, incorporating a lobby-entry. It comprises one storey and an attic, with three gable dormers. Four casement windows are present, two featuring leaded lights. A two-panelled door leads to the lobby.
Inside, a main beam in one room bears inscriptions indicating years: ‘18 Day of February 1657’, ‘1656’, and ‘WM 1712’. Abutting inglework hearths are also present. An inserted ceiling divides the west end of the cottage. The roof is of the side purlin type. The ceiling displays an ogee-moulded stop chamfer to the main beam. This cottage, along with others on the north side of the High Street, represents an encroachment onto the Green, likely begun around 1650.
Local climate
The Guildhall 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- 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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