68, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. A Eighteenth Century Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
68, High Street
- WRENN ID
- waning-gravel-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Eighteenth Century
- Address
- 68, High Street, Great Shelford, CB22 5EH
- OS grid reference
- TL 460 521
- Coordinates
- 52.14802, 0.13337
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 68 High Street is a cottage from the 18th century that has been altered and restored in the 20th century. It features a timber frame with plaster rendering and a steeply pitched thatched roof made of reed, which includes a small ridge stack made of gault brick. The cottage has a plan consisting of three bays and a lobby entry, with one storey and an attic. There is one gable dormer and two early 19th-century hung sash windows, each with sixteen panes, located on either side of the doorway, which has a 20th-century door. The right-hand front wall has been partially rebuilt to accommodate the insertion of a garage. The cottage is situated on the edge of the former village green.
Local climate
68, High Street sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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 — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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