55, Main Street is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1955. House. 2 related planning applications.
55, Main Street
- WRENN ID
- sacred-lancet-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peterborough
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- 55, Main Street, Ailsworth, City of Peterborough, PE5 7AF
- OS grid reference
- TL 117 991
- Coordinates
- 52.57905, -0.35185
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 55 Main Street is a 17th-century house constructed from coursed stone and topped with a thatched roof featuring gabled ends. The building has a projecting gabled cross wing on the right (north) side. Stone coping adorns the gables. It stands two storeys tall and has a five or six window range. A modern door is located to the right of the center. The ridge stack has been rebuilt in ashlar.
Local climate
55, Main Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2000
- 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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