68 and 70, Main Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1975. Cottage.
68 and 70, Main Street
- WRENN ID
- low-flagstone-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 68 and 70, Main Street, Downham
- OS grid reference
- TL 522 839
- Coordinates
- 52.4319, 0.23865
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 68 and 70 on Main Street are early 18th-century cottages. They are constructed from painted and rendered local brick, red brick, and reused stone, topped with pantiled roofs. The buildings are one storey with an attic and feature a lower range to the west. The gables have tumbled corbelled parapets, with a stack at the right end and a ridge stack. There is a boarded door to the left of centre and three three-light casement windows set in segmental brick arches, along with three 20th-century casement dormer windows. Inside, the cottages have exposed floor frames and inglenook hearths.
Local climate
68 and 70, 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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