12, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Cottage.
12, High Street
- WRENN ID
- inner-stronghold-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 12, High Street, Coton
- OS grid reference
- TL 412 588
- Coordinates
- 52.20986, 0.06528
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 12 High Street is a cottage dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with a small addition from the late 18th century or early 19th century. The building is timber-framed, plaster rendered, and has a longstraw thatch roof with a 19th-century grey brick ridge stack. It features a three-bay layout with a lobby entry and a kitchen wing at the rear, which may be from the same period. The cottage is one storey high with an attic and includes one dormer. There are two windows, including a horizontal sliding sash, located on either side of the doorway to the lobby entry. To the right, there is a single bay addition that is plastered and has a longstraw thatch roof, likely from the 19th century.
Local climate
12, 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 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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