74, 76 and 78, Church Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. House. 5 related planning applications.
74, 76 and 78, Church Street
- WRENN ID
- tattered-loft-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- 74, 76 and 78, Church Street, Gamlingay, SG19 3JJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 240 523
- Coordinates
- 52.1552, -0.18859
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This property, comprising numbers 74, 76, and 78 Church Street, is a house originally built in the late 16th to early 17th century, with significant alterations and a new facade added in the early 18th century. The building is now divided into two dwellings. The original construction was timber-framed and roughcast rendered, but the front was later refaced with red brick, now painted. It has a tiled roof with a hipped eastern end. A prominent brick ridge stack of three diagonally-linked shafts is located centrally, with rebuilt upper courses. A moulded brick cornice runs along the eaves.
The original layout consisted of a hall and an east crosswing, with alterations made in the late 17th or early 18th century when the roof was rebuilt into a straight range. The building is two storeys high, with a moulded brick plat band separating the floors. It has five window openings dating to the late 17th or early 18th century; these are arched and contain modern casement windows. Four similar windows flank the doorway. A gabled stair turret is located at the rear, along with a later lean-to addition.
The interior retains stop-chamfered beams and joists, as well as a wind-braced side purlin roof in the crosswing.
Local climate
74, 76 and 78, Church 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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 0.4°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 — 3 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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