2 Ashley Road and attached gate piers is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1984. A C19 Gatelodge cottage.
2 Ashley Road and attached gate piers
- WRENN ID
- secret-bastion-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1984
- Type
- Gatelodge cottage
- Address
- 2 Ashley Road and attached gate piers, Newmarket, Cheveley, CB8 8DA
- OS grid reference
- TL 654 629
- Coordinates
- 52.24016, 0.42103
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
2 Ashley Road and the attached gate piers are part of a pair of gatelodge cottages built in the late 19th century for Cheveley Park. The cottages have an irregular cruciform plan and are single-storey structures designed in the Queen Anne Revival Style. They are constructed of red brick and feature Flemish gables on each of the four arms, a moulded brick eaves cornice, and a limestone string at window sill level. Two of the gables display finely carved brick achievements. The roofs are covered with plain tiles and have an axial chimney made of red brick.
Two of the gables include a splayed bay with a hipped plain-tiled roof and casement windows, which originally had small panes. The entrance porch is recessed and has a segmental arched head made of gauged brick with carved spandrels. Above the porch is a flat lead-roofed canopy supported by prominent and richly carved wooden console brackets.
On the north-east side, the cottages are linked by short brick walls to each other and to the cottage. There are also a pair of 2.5-meter high banded square gate piers made of finely-gauged red brick, each topped with a moulded limestone capping that once had a ball finial.
Local climate
2 Ashley Road and attached gate piers sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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