St Mary's Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 August 1993. Terrace of houses.
St Mary's Cottages
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-floor-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1993
- Type
- Terrace of houses
- Address
- St Mary's Cottages, 47 and 49, High Street, Swaffham Prior
- OS grid reference
- TL 567 639
- Coordinates
- 52.25146, 0.29521
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Mary's Cottages is a terrace of houses built around 1835. The cottages are constructed of painted Flemish bond brick and feature a slate roof with gabled ends and brick modillion eaves. There are brick axial stacks, one of which is truncated. The terrace consists of three houses, with the left and center houses now combined into one house (No 47). Each house has a double depth plan, including one front room and a smaller heated rear service room, from which a staircase rises. The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical three-window west front, featuring 19th-century 12-pane sash windows. There are round arch doorways on the left and right, both with a blind fanlight, panelled doors, and a boot-scraper to the left. A similar doorway to the left of center has been blocked. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
St Mary's Cottages sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Sale history — 7 transactions since 2002
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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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