51, Main Street is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1974. Cottage.

51, Main Street

WRENN ID
seventh-transept-starling
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peterborough
Constituency
North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 November 1974
Type
Cottage
Address
51, Main Street, Ailsworth, City of Peterborough
OS grid reference
TL 117 991
Coordinates
52.57877, -0.35226
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 51 on Main Street is a 17th-century cottage positioned at right angles to the road. It features whitewashed rubble walls and a steeply pitched thatched roof with coped gabled ends. The cottage is one storey high with attics and has a range of three windows. There are two dormers located at the eaves, and the windows are casements. The plain doorway has wooden lintels, and there is a central ridge chimney stack. To the left, the exterior has a slate roof.

Local climate

51, 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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