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

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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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