10, 12, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. Cottage.

10, 12, High Street

WRENN ID
crooked-pewter-mist
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 October 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
10, 12, High Street, Orwell
OS grid reference
TL 363 504
Coordinates
52.13526, -0.00962
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

10 and 12 High Street is a cottage that originally formed part of a row, dating from two main building periods in the 18th and 19th centuries. The structure is timber framed, plaster rendered, and has a long straw thatch roof. It features a rebuilt ridge stack that originally had two flues. The cottage has two bays that extend at the rear and west end, and it is one storey with an attic, including one gable dormer. There are two doorways and a 19th-century horizontal sliding sash window at the ground floor. At the west end, there is a mid-19th-century addition made of clay bat with a white brick front wall and a slate roof, which is two storeys high and has two recessed, twelve-pane hung sash windows at the first floor. At the rear, there is a 19th-century timber framed addition that is weatherboarded and rendered, also thatched, and consisting of one bay.

Inside, there is an 18th-century red brick hearth and upward bracing to the main posts of the wall frame. The eastern end bay may have been a shop addition from the 19th century. On the first floor, the chamber above the 18th-century bay features raised and fielded panelling on one wall, arranged in two heights with a dado.

Local climate

10, 12, 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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