81, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
81, High Street
- WRENN ID
- western-passage-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 81, High Street, Bassingbourn Cum Kneesworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 335 440
- Coordinates
- 52.07854, -0.05253
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 81 High Street is a cottage dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and has a roughcast rendered finish. The cottage features red brick ridge stacks and a steeply pitched roof covered with pantiles. It has one storey and an attic. The entrance includes a boarded door, while the ground floor has two horizontal sliding sash windows. There are also two dormer windows on the first floor, each with a sloping roof.
Local climate
81, 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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- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
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- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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