59 and 61, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. A Early Modern Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
59 and 61, High Street
- WRENN ID
- vast-chimney-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- 59 and 61, High Street, Bassingbourn Cum Kneesworth, SG8 5LF
- OS grid reference
- TL 334 440
- Coordinates
- 52.07835, -0.05419
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of cottages located on the north side of High Street in Bassingbourn-cum-Kneesworth, built in the early 19th century and restored in the 20th century. The cottages have a timber-frame construction with plaster rendering, a painted brick plinth, and a gault brick ridge stack. The roof is tiled. They are two storeys high, with two boarded front doors and four casement windows on each floor. The windows have glazing bars. The buildings are listed for group value.
Local climate
59 and 61, 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 96% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
- 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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