38 and 40, Church Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. A C17 House. 7 related planning applications.
38 and 40, Church Street
- WRENN ID
- long-groin-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- 38 and 40, Church Street, Great Shelford, CB22 5EL
- OS grid reference
- TL 457 517
- Coordinates
- 52.14527, 0.12802
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
38 and 40 Church Street is a house that dates from the late 17th century or early 18th century, which has since been divided into two dwellings. There was originally a panel dated 1738, which has now been removed, and this may indicate the actual date of construction. The building has undergone alterations and additions in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features an exposed timber frame that was previously plaster rendered until it was restored around 1960. The roof is steeply pitched and covered with plain tiles, although the ridge stack has been removed. The house is two storeys high, with the first floor having six small pane windows, the ground floor five small pane windows, and two doorways, all of which are from the 20th century. The slender wall framing is supported by straight bracing, except for the rear wall, which has close studding made of substantial scantling.
Local climate
38 and 40, Church Street sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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 — 1 transaction since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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