53, 55, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. House. 3 related planning applications.
53, 55, High Street
- WRENN ID
- dark-jade-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- 53, 55, High Street, Melbourn
- OS grid reference
- TL 383 447
- Coordinates
- 52.08425, 0.0171
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, formerly The Anchor public house, dating back to the 16th century. It is located on the south-east side of Melbourn High Street. The building has a timber frame, now rendered with roughcast, and a tiled roof with later end stacks. An extension to the rear creates an L-shaped plan. The building is two storeys high, featuring three late 20th-century windows on the first floor, and two windows flanking the entrance on the ground floor. Inside the front range, original floor joists of heavy timber remain. Around 1840, the property was owned by Thomas Dickason Titchmarsh and occupied by Mynott Titchmarsh, a farmer. It operated as The Anchor public house in the 1840s, after Mynott Titchmarsh moved to a farmstead following enclosure of fields.
Local climate
53, 55, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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