28, St Mary's Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. House.

28, St Mary's Street

WRENN ID
quartered-tin-tallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Cambridgeshire
Constituency
Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
28, St Mary's Street, Ely
OS grid reference
TL 538 803
Coordinates
52.39997, 0.26036
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

28 St Mary's Street is a large 18th-century house made of yellow gault brick. It features a decorative wood cornice with modillions and has three storeys plus cellars. The front has a five-window arrangement with double-hung sash windows that have glazing bars, all set in flush cased frames. On the east end, there is a single-storey addition with three windows and a stone Tuscan doorcase that includes a coat of arms above, framed by pilasters. At the back, there is a large circular brick bow with three tall sash windows set in stuccoed reveals. Inside, the house boasts an ornamental plaster cornice from the 18th century.

This property is part of a group that includes Nos 20, 22, 22A, 24 to 30 (even), 34, 36, 36A, 38, and 40 to 60 (even), as well as Nos 13 to 29 (odd) and 29A, Parson's Almshouses, and Nos 1 to 5 (odd) Downham Road. It also groups with No 20 Church Lane and the Parish Church of St Mary.

Local climate

28, 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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