7 and 8, Shilling Street is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1958. Building. 2 related planning applications.
7 and 8, Shilling Street
- WRENN ID
- spare-stair-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1958
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 7 and 8, Shilling Street, Lavenham, CO10 9RH
- OS grid reference
- TL 917 492
- Coordinates
- 52.10843, 0.79885
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 7 and 8, Shilling Street are a timber-framed and plastered building dating from the 16th century, with a tiled roof and a central chimney stack featuring three octagonal shafts. The building is two storeys high. The upper storey is jettied across the entire front, supported by exposed joists. The upper storey displays some pargetted emblems, and the ground storey retains some remains of panel pargetting. The ground storey contains two casement windows and one double-hung sash window. A centrally positioned, blocked two-light mullioned window is present on the upper storey. The interior reveals exposed beams.
Local climate
7 and 8, Shilling Street 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2017
- 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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