1 and 2, Church Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. House.
1 and 2, Church Street
- WRENN ID
- tangled-transept-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- 1 and 2, Church Street, Grantham
- OS grid reference
- SK 915 362
- Coordinates
- 52.91553, -0.6405
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
1 and 2 Church Street are two adjoining houses, one building, located next to the "Old School" on the east side. They date from the 16th century, with a front added in the middle of the 18th century. The building is two stories tall with attics and features a stone slate roof, rusticated quoins, and a moulded stone band between the storeys. It has a moulded cornice with a pediment, seven windows with moulded architraves and keystones, and hung sashes with glazing bars. The central doorway is framed by moulded architraves, panelled pilasters, scroll brackets, a cornice, and a pediment. A window on the west side has been converted into a second doorway.
Inside No. 2, the ground floor room is lined with early 17th-century panelling. The first-floor room features an early 17th-century wall painting with masonic and architectural grisaille, which overlays a late 16th-century design that is now mostly obscured. The fireplace decoration is the only remnant of what was once a fully painted room. The wide fireplace was originally painted brick but is now partly filled in and colour washed. The easterly first-floor room has a moulded stone jamb from an early fireplace, which is now covered with plaster and has been altered to fit a modern firegrate.
In No. 1, the interior includes panelled rooms from the late 17th and early 18th centuries on the south side, and middle 18th-century rooms on the north side. The ground floor north room contains a notable middle 18th-century fireplace that came from a house of that period in Boston. The first-floor room has an original fireplace dating from around 1760.
Local climate
1 and 2, Church Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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