2, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.

2, High Street

WRENN ID
final-rampart-torch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 November 1967
Type
Cottage
Address
2, High Street, Barrington, CB22 7QX
OS grid reference
TL 394 498
Coordinates
52.12921, 0.03643
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 2 High Street is a cottage dating from the late 17th century, featuring small dairy or pantry extensions at both the north and south ends. The building is timber framed, rendered, and has a long straw thatched roof with a half-hipped design. A red brick ridge stack is present. The cottage has a two-bay and lobby entry plan and is one storey with an attic. There are two casement windows on either side of the doorway to the lobby, one of which includes an 18th-century shafted mullion. At the rear, there is a late 20th-century wing.

Inside, the cottage features red brick inglenooks, one of which has a later bread oven that partially projects from the west wall. The ceiling consists of parallel main beams, and the exposed wall frame has downward bracing with plain heads to the main posts. The tie beam of the central truss is tied to the chimney brickwork, and there is a stop-chamfered lintel above the inglenook.

Local climate

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 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 — 1 transaction since 2019
  • 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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