40 and 42, St Mary's Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1972. House. 1 related planning application.
40 and 42, St Mary's Street
- WRENN ID
- hollow-flagstone-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- 40 and 42, St Mary's Street, Ely, CB7 4EY
- OS grid reference
- TL 538 803
- Coordinates
- 52.39935, 0.2594
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 40 and 42 St Mary's Street are a pair of houses built in the late 18th century or early 19th century, constructed from yellow gault brick. They feature a parapet and a stone string course, standing three storeys tall with cellars. The houses have a five-window range, with double-hung sash windows that include glazing bars and are set in plain reveals. The second-storey windows are adorned with ornamental iron window guards. The doorways, which are accessed by steps, have four-panel doors topped with semi-circular fanlights that feature fan glazing. These doorways are set within recessed brick reveals and are flanked by fluted quadrant columns. The roofs are covered with slate.
These houses are part of a group that includes Nos 20, 22, 22A, 24 to 30 (even), 34, 36, 36A, 38, and 60 on St Mary's Street, as well as Nos 13 to 29 (odd) and 29A, Parson's Almshouses, and Nos 1 to 5 (odd) Downham Road. They also form a group with No 20 Church Lane and the Parish Church of St Mary.
Local climate
40 and 42, St Mary's 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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