17, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
17, High Street
- WRENN ID
- graven-parapet-wind
- 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
- 17, High Street, Melbourn, SG8 6ER
- OS grid reference
- TL 386 449
- Coordinates
- 52.08579, 0.02225
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 17 is a 17th-century cottage located on the south side of High Street in Melbourn. It features a timber frame with roughcast rendering, a steeply pitched tiled roof, and a grey brick ridge stack. The cottage has a typical three-bay and lobby entry plan, consisting of one storey and an attic, with one swept dormer. There are two fixed metal-frame windows, one of which has a small central opening, both equipped with raised and fielded panelled shutters. The doorway leads to the lobby entry. At the rear, there is a 19th-century kitchen addition, which is single storey with a lean-to slate roof. In the garden, there is a 19th-century three-bay barn that is timber framed, weatherboarded, and slated, along with a curtilage wall made of clay bat.
Local climate
17, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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