38 St Mary’s Street, Ely (RGL2025)

38 St Mary’s Street, Ely

History of 38 St Mary's Street

Listed Building

38a St Mary’s Street is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Architectural interest: as a building with C16 origins and a range of subsequent phases covering four centuries. Surviving fabric and structural detail from each phase reflects the changing needs of succeeding occupants, thus providing important evidence for historic building traditions; * Historic interest: it lies within the area of settlement described on John Speed’s map of 1610/1611, a street pattern established by the early C15, and makes an important contribution to the historical development of the townscape