59, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1978. House. 3 related planning applications.

59, High Street

WRENN ID
idle-stronghold-jay
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 March 1978
Type
House
Address
59, High Street, Orwell, SG8 5QN
OS grid reference
TL 366 504
Coordinates
52.13531, -0.00516
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

59 High Street is a house dating from around 1600, with a bay added or rebuilt in the 19th century. It features a timber frame, plaster render, and a thatched roof. The house has two ridge stacks, both of which were inserted in the 19th century, and the original ridge stack has been removed, although the inglenook remains. Two bays from the original 1600 structure survive, and the house is two storeys high. There are two small modern casement windows on both the first and ground floors, and the doorway is now within a modern porch.

Inside, there is a sealed inglenook hearth made of clunch, and this bay was originally open to the roof. A floor was inserted between the 17th and 18th centuries, with joists laid on edge that are lighter than those in the bay to the west. An original closed partition wall separates the two original bays and extends through to the first floor and ridge. The west gable end wall features an original six-light window with hollow and roll moulded mullions at ground floor, and at first floor, there are jowled heads to the posts and cranked bracing. Additionally, there is a fragment of wall painting in the front wall of the original structure, which is now concealed.

Local climate

59, 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 2006
  • 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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