29a, St Mary's Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1972. House. 3 related planning applications.

29a, St Mary's Street

WRENN ID
former-corner-cedar
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
29a, St Mary's Street, Ely
OS grid reference
TL 537 802
Coordinates
52.39851, 0.25839
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

29A St Mary's Street is an early 19th century building made of buff-coloured gault brick, located at the corner of St Mary's Street and Silver Street. It has two storeys and cellars, featuring a four-window range on the north front, a single window range on the quadrant corner that is slightly recessed on the first storey, and another single window range on the west front. The windows are double-hung sashes with glazing bars set in plain reveals.

The building has a wide doorway on the quadrant corner with curved double doors, framed by a stucco doorcase that includes pilasters and a cornice supported by console brackets. A short wing at the south end features an oriel bay window. The roof is covered with slate.

29A St Mary's Street is part of a group that includes Nos 13 to 29 (odd) and Parson's Almshouses, as well as Nos 20, 22, 22A, Nos 24 to 30 (even), Nos 34, 36, 36A, 38, and Nos 40 to 60 (even), along with No 20 Church Lane and the Parish Church of St Mary.

Local climate

29a, 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • 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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