83, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Pair of cottages.

83, High Street

WRENN ID
ancient-rotunda-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Type
Pair of cottages
Address
83, High Street, Bassingbourn Cum Kneesworth
OS grid reference
TL 335 440
Coordinates
52.07855, -0.05249
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 83 High Street is a pair of cottages dating from the early 19th century. The cottages are constructed from clay bat and timber framing, finished with plaster, and feature a pantiled roof. A central gault brick ridge stack is present. The building has two storeys, with two horizontal sliding sash windows on both the ground floor and the first floor. There are also two boarded doors located on the left and right sides of the cottages.

Local climate

83, 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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