56-60, St Mary's Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1968. House.
56-60, St Mary's Street
- WRENN ID
- rough-hall-sorrel
- 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
- Address
- 56-60, St Mary's Street, Ely
- OS grid reference
- TL 537 802
- Coordinates
- 52.39893, 0.25872
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
56 to 60 St Mary's Street is a range of 18th century yellow brick houses, possibly incorporating an earlier structure. The buildings are two storeys high and feature a six-window range of double-hung sash windows with glazing bars, set in flush eased frames. The doorways are adorned with wooden doorcases; No 56 has a reeded architrave and cornice, while Nos 58 and 60 have pilasters and cornices. Nos 56 and 60 also have six-panel doors. The roofs are covered with old Cambridgeshire tiles. This group of houses, along with Nos 20, 22, 22A, 20 to 30 (even), 34, 36, 36A, 38, and 40 to 60 (even), forms a cohesive architectural group with Nos 13 to 29 (odd) and 29A, Parson's Almshouses, and Nos 1 to 5 (odd) Downham Road, as well as with Nos 20, 22, 22A, 24 to 30 (even), 34, 36, 36A, 38, and the Parish Church of St Mary.
Local climate
56-60, 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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