Cambridge House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 1949. House. 1 related planning application.
Cambridge House
- WRENN ID
- tangled-stronghold-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 November 1949
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cambridge House, 16, Hitchin Street, SG7 6AE
- OS grid reference
- TL 243 338
- Coordinates
- 51.98885, -0.19099
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cambridge House is a mid-18th century house located on Hitchin Street. The construction is stone-dressed red brick with a hipped roof covered in old tiles, concealed behind a parapet. The house is three storeys high and features a band at the second-floor level, a moulded cornice, and in-and-out quoins. There are five sash windows on each floor, set within reveals and featuring glazing bars and flat arches. The ground floor has a pair of canted bay windows on either side of the main doorway. The doorway itself has a six-panelled door, a fanlight with glazing bars, a panelled arched reveal, a surround of fluted Doric pilasters, an entablature, and a pediment with mutules. Numbers 2 to 16 (even) form a group.
Local climate
Cambridge House 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 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 20 transactions since 1997
- 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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