31 and 33, Waterside is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1968. House, smithy. 1 related planning application.
31 and 33, Waterside
- WRENN ID
- over-paling-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1968
- Type
- House, smithy
- Address
- 31 and 33, Waterside, Ely, CB7 4AU
- OS grid reference
- TL 545 800
- Coordinates
- 52.39708, 0.27005
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 31 and 33 (The Smithy Craft Studio), Waterside
An 18th-century brick house with a matching 18th-century smithy at the rear, located on Willow Walk. The building occupies an important position at the point where the narrow street of Waterside opens up to the south.
The main house is two storeys with attics. It has stopped gables at the north and south ends. A raised brick band runs between the storeys. The north and east elevations feature a five-window range, with one window blocked on the first storey and one blocked on the second storey. The south side has a single window. The windows are double-hung sashes with glazing bars, set in flush cased frames with segmental heads. The doorway is 20th-century work in simple 18th-century style. The roof is tiled in old Cambridgeshire tiles and has three hipped dormers.
The building was renovated and restored in the 20th century.
Nos 31 and 33, together with Nos 35 to 41 (consecutive), Nos 43 to 47 (odd), Nos 51 to 53 (consecutive), the Malthouse adjoining No 53, No 55 and the house adjoining No 55, and Quayside House, form a group with Nos 54 to 64 (even) on Quayside.
Local climate
31 and 33, Waterside 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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