1 and 2, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
1 and 2, High Street
- WRENN ID
- knotted-hall-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 1 and 2, High Street, Fen Drayton, CB24 4SJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 338 683
- Coordinates
- 52.29693, -0.03794
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pair of cottages located on the west side of High Street, Fen Drayton, dating from the early to mid-19th century. The cottages are built of yellow gault brick, with a low-pitched slate roof. They are two storeys high, with two ridge stacks. The ground floor has four nine-paned hung sash windows, and the first floor has four sixteen-paned hung sash windows, all set within segmental brick arches and with flush wooden frames. The cottages have plain boarded doors, also within segmental brick arches and approached by steps, one located to the left and one to the right. The buildings are listed for their group value.
Local climate
1 and 2, 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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 — 2 transactions since 2020
- 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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