35 and 37 High Street and attached former Bakehouse and Granary (outhouse to rear of 35 and 37 not included) is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 April 1990. House. 8 related planning applications.
35 and 37 High Street and attached former Bakehouse and Granary (outhouse to rear of 35 and 37 not included)
- WRENN ID
- dusk-wicket-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 April 1990
- Type
- House
- Address
- 35 and 37 High Street and attached former Bakehouse and Granary (outhouse to rear of 35 and 37 not included), 35 and 37 and Attached Former Bakehouse and Granary (Outhouse to Rear of Nos 35 and 37 Not Included), Bassingbourn Cum Kneesworth, SG8 5NE
- OS grid reference
- TL 332 439
- Coordinates
- 52.07804, -0.05669
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, now divided into two dwellings, situated on High Street in Bassingbourn. The core of the building dates to the early 16th century, with significant additions from the mid-18th century and mid-19th century. The original structure is roughcast over a timber frame, featuring a gabled tile roof. Later sections have hipped roofs, brick ridge stacks, and end stacks. The original layout was open-hall, but was remodelled in the 17th century into a three-unit plan, and further extended in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The front elevation, one storey and attic, has a three-window arrangement. A 20th-century door is located on the left side of No. 35. Windows include an early 19th-century twelve-pane sash to the left, a 20th-century two-light casement with glazing bars, and an early 19th-century sixteen-pane sash to the right (No. 37). Gabled and canted roof dormers are present. A mid-18th to late-18th century extension to the left features a two-storey, two-window front with a late 19th-century tripartite sash window. The rear of No. 35 has an early 19th-century twenty-pane sash adjoining a mid-18th to late-18th century extension with twelve-pane sashes and a mid-19th-century doorway with a bracketed surround. Similar sashes and a panelled door are found on the right-side wall of the mid-19th-century rear extension. A 1980s extension is present to the right and rear of No. 37.
Internally, the original house retains a chamfered bressummer above a rebuilt mid-20th century brick fireplace, as well as a clasped purlin roof showing signs of smoke blackening. A mid-19th century open-well staircase has a wreathed handrail and balusters, alternating between crossed and stick designs set on an open string.
Attached to the left is a former bakehouse and granary, dating from the late 18th or early 19th century. This building is of rendered timber frame construction on a tall brick plinth, and has a gabled and hipped corrugated asbestos roof. The interior of the bakehouse and granary features stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, bolted knee braces to the first-floor tie beams, late 19th-century glazed brick, and late 18th-century brick ovens.
Local climate
35 and 37 High Street and attached former Bakehouse and Granary (outhouse to rear of 35 and 37 not included) 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 — 6 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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