Number 115 (The Firs) and Number 117 is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Number 115 (The Firs) and Number 117
- WRENN ID
- riven-cloister-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Number 115 (The Firs) and Number 117, High Street, Sawston, CB22 3HJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 486 491
- Coordinates
- 52.12028, 0.16917
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 115 (The Firs) and Number 117 is a house located on High Street in Sawston, dating from the late 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is timber-framed and plastered, featuring a clay pantiled roof and an end stack on the left side. There is a large rectangular red brick ridge stack from the 17th century positioned to the right of the center, and a slated rear wing. The house is two storeys high and originally had a three-unit plan with a lobby entry. The current entrance, located in a closed porch on the right side, dates from the 20th century. The ground floor has three twelve-paned hung sash windows and a small casement window, while the first floor features four horizontal sliding sash windows. Inside, there are cased ceiling beams.
Local climate
Number 115 (The Firs) and Number 117 sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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 — 5 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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