117, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. Cottage.
117, High Street
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-render-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 117, High Street, Melbourn
- OS grid reference
- TL 381 444
- Coordinates
- 52.08104, 0.01417
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 117 High Street is a cottage dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, which underwent renovations in the mid to late 20th century. The building features a timber frame with plaster rendering and a gable end made of sorted flint on the right side. It has a reed thatched roof with a brick ridge stack that is rendered. The original layout may have included a lobby entry, but the entrance is now located in the gable end. The cottage has two storeys and includes two late 20th century casement windows on both the first and ground floors. There are also modern extensions at the rear.
Local climate
117, 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 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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