66, Main Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1988. A C18 House.
66, Main Street
- WRENN ID
- lesser-rubblework-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- 66, Main Street, Witchford
- OS grid reference
- TL 504 788
- Coordinates
- 52.38691, 0.20863
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 66 on Main Street is a house that dates from the late 18th century, with an early 19th-century extension at the east end. It is constructed of gault brick in English bond and features a mansard roof with plain tiles and a sawtooth eaves cornice. The end stacks of the original late 18th-century cottage have been moved inside due to the early 19th-century addition. The building has a T-plan layout, consisting of one storey and an attic.
There are three 19th-century gable dormers with shaped bargeboarding and horizontal sliding sashes. The early 19th-century doorway is set in a reeded doorcase and has a narrow hood, with panelled reveals. The front also includes a later canted bay window and an original twelve-pane hung sash window in a segmental arch. At the east end, there is a single-bay early 19th-century service addition, which is similar in brick and bond, also featuring a mansard roof and tumbled gable end. This addition has two storeys, with a three-light casement window on the first floor and a ground floor window in a segmental header arch.
At the rear, there is a late 18th-century wing made of gault brick with a tumbled gable end. Inside, the layout consists of two rooms flanking a hall. The room to the west has an inglenook and may have originally served as the kitchen. The rear wing includes a cellar and a pantry, which has corner cupboards and a 19th-century fixed hand basin beside the door. There is another inglenook in the early 19th-century addition.
Local climate
66, Main 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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