26, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. Cottage.
26, High Street
- WRENN ID
- sunken-rubblework-vetch
- 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
- 26, High Street, Barrington
- OS grid reference
- TL 393 496
- Coordinates
- 52.12789, 0.0347
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 26 High Street is a cottage dating from the late 17th century. It has a timber frame that was cased in brick during the 19th century and is painted. The roof is made of long straw thatch and features two ridge and eaves levels. The bay on the right side may have had its roof raised in the 19th century. There is a grey brick ridge stack from the 19th century. The cottage has a lobby entry and is one storey with an attic, featuring two dormers. There are three windows in total, which include two 19th-century four-pane casements and one modern casement.
Local climate
26, 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
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