38 and 39, Prentice Street is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1958. House.

38 and 39, Prentice Street

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 January 1958
Type
House
Address
38 and 39, Prentice Street, Lavenham, CO10 9RD
OS grid reference
TL 917 494
Coordinates
52.10969, 0.79831
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

38 and 39 Prentice Street is a 16th to 17th century timber-framed and plastered building with a tiled roof and a central ridge chimney stack. It is positioned at right angles to the road, featuring a gable end facing Prentice Street. The upper storey has exposed timber-framing. The building has two storeys and includes small casement windows with leaded lights, as well as two gabled dormers on the west front.

Local climate

38 and 39, Prentice 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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