28, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. A C19 House. 3 related planning applications.

28, High Street

WRENN ID
strange-casement-lark
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 October 1985
Type
House
Address
28, High Street, Orwell, SG8 5QN
OS grid reference
TL 364 504
Coordinates
52.13519, -0.00842
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 28 High Street is a house that has two distinct building periods. It is timber framed, rendered, and has a pantiled roof. The house is two storeys high. On the first floor, there are two horizontal sliding sash windows. The ground floor features one modern window in the original opening, along with an adjacent doorway that has a 19th-century boarded door. The 19th-century section of the house is partly brick, rendered, and also has a pantiled roof with a grey brick ridge stack. This section is also two storeys tall, with one recessed horizontal sliding sash window on the first floor and a modern casement window on the ground floor.

Local climate

28, 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 2014
  • 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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