Astral House is a Grade II listed building in the Fenland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 February 1969. House. 2 related planning applications.
Astral House
- WRENN ID
- upper-gateway-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Fenland
- Constituency
- North East Cambridgeshire MP: Steve Barclay (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 February 1969
- Type
- House
- Address
- Astral House, 33, Old Market, Wisbech, PE13 1NF
- OS grid reference
- TF 459 098
- Coordinates
- 52.66636, 0.1574
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Astral House is an early 19th century house located on the north side of the Old Market in Wisbech. The house is built of local gault brick, with a concealed roof behind a parpet finished with stone coping. It has three chimney stacks. The main building is three storeys high with a basement, arranged over five bays, and is complemented by a two-storey rear wing with a basement and a curved, apsidal plan.
The central entrance is accessed by four stone steps leading to a plain, pilastered stone doorcase with a cornice. The entrance features a recessed four-panelled door and a rectangular fanlight. Five six-paned recessed sash windows are on the second floor, set within flat gauged brick arches. Similar twelve-paned windows are present on the second and ground floors. The rear wing features a large, three-light hung sash window curved to a segmental plan.
The interior retains original cornices to the ceilings, featuring good central details. A plain open-string staircase has a raking handrail and slender newel posts. A six-panelled door with embossed panels is also present.
Local climate
Astral House 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 88% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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