2, The Gallery is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1972. House.

2, The Gallery

WRENN ID
scarred-foundation-lark
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
2, The Gallery, Ely
OS grid reference
TL 539 800
Coordinates
52.39711, 0.26192
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

2 The Gallery is a late 18th century or early 19th century house made of buff-colored brick. It is now part of a series of boarding houses for the King's School. The building has two storeys and features a two-window range, with double-hung sash windows on the ground floor and casement windows with vertical glazing bars on the first floor. The roof is slate. This house is included for its group value.

It is part of a group that includes Nos 2 to 8 consecutively, No 9 (the stables to the Bishop's Palace), The Great Hall (the Bishop's residence), The Queen's Hall (the Headmaster's House), the wall to the garden of the Bishop's residence, the Guest Quarters of the Monastery, the walls to the Guest Quarters of the Monastery, Ely Porta, Prior's House (a boarding house of the King's School), Prior Crauden's Chapel, the walls to the garden of Prior's House, Ely Porta, the Barn and Storehouse of the Monastery, and the wall to the Barn and Storehouse, along with the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, the Bishop's Palace, and the wall to the Bishop's Palace.

Local climate

2, The Gallery 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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