17, Main Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1985. Cottage.
17, Main Street
- WRENN ID
- winding-copper-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 17, Main Street, Downham
- OS grid reference
- TL 525 840
- Coordinates
- 52.43353, 0.24241
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 17 Main Street is a cottage dating from the late 16th century, which has been cased in 19th century local gault brick. It features a red pantile roof and stands two storeys tall. There is an end stack on the left side and a ridge stack located to the right of the centre. The front includes a half-glazed door set in a segmental brick arch, alongside one sealed doorway, and three 19th century four-paned hung sash windows. The first floor has three similar windows with flush frames. Inside, the cottage retains an exposed timber frame consisting of three bays and a side purlin roof.
Local climate
17, 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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