52 and 54, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1984. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
52 and 54, High Street
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-steel-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 52 and 54, High Street, Horningsea, CB25 9JG
- OS grid reference
- TL 493 624
- Coordinates
- 52.24037, 0.18538
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 52 and 54 on High Street are a pair of cottages dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century. They are constructed of gault brick and have a cased timber frame, topped with a corrugated asbestos roof. The cottages feature gable end stacks and a local red brick ridge stack. They are one storey high with attics, and have three gabled dormer windows on the facade, which are plain tiled and contain fixed lights and casements. On the ground floor, there are three twelve-paned hung sash windows and two half-glazed doors.
Local climate
52 and 54, High 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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.
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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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