Village Centre is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1952. Village hall. 3 related planning applications.
Village Centre
- WRENN ID
- little-forge-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1952
- Type
- Village hall
- Address
- Village Centre, Main Street, Downham, CB6 2ST
- OS grid reference
- TL 525 841
- Coordinates
- 52.43387, 0.24247
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Village Centre, formerly known as The Feoffees' School, is a village hall dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of local gault brick and features a plain tile roof. The building is one storey high with an attic, although the dormer windows have recently been removed. It has tumbled parapet gables and an end stack on the right side. A dentil brick eaves cornice runs along the top, and there are six twelve-paned hung sash windows set in segmental brick arches. The entrance includes a 19th-century gabled closed porch with a steep two-centred arch and a boarded door. Historically, this building served as a poor house and was constructed on the site of the Guildhall.
Local climate
Village Centre 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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