St Mary's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. A C16 House.
St Mary's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- graven-lancet-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- St Mary's Cottage, 20, Church Lane, Ely
- OS grid reference
- TL 538 802
- Coordinates
- 52.39891, 0.26053
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Mary's Cottage is a 16th century timber-framed house that has undergone later alterations and additions, with significant restoration work. The building is designed on an L-shaped plan and consists of two storeys. The first storey features exposed timber-framing, while the ground storey is covered in pebbledash. The south front includes two 20th century bay windows that extend through both storeys and are fitted with leaded lights. The roof is tiled. St Mary's Cottage is part of a group that includes Nos. 13 to 19 (odd), Nos. 20 to 30 (consecutive), Parson's Almshouses, Nos. 34, 36, 36A, 38, and Nos. 40 to 60 (even) on St Mary's Street, as well as the Parish Church of St Mary.
Local climate
St Mary's Cottage 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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