Walls of Burial Ground of Friends Meeting House is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 October 1971. Burial ground walls. 3 related planning applications.
Walls of Burial Ground of Friends Meeting House
- WRENN ID
- errant-gateway-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 October 1971
- Type
- Burial ground walls
- Address
- Walls of Burial Ground of Friends Meeting House, Friars Street, Sudbury, CO10 2AA
- OS grid reference
- TL 873 411
- Coordinates
- 52.03682, 0.72998
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The walls of the burial ground of the Friends Meeting House date back to 1692. They are constructed of low red brick and feature most of the headstones arranged against the northeast side. The earliest legible gravestone dates to 1841, although many others have decayed inscriptions. For further historical context, see "History of Sudbury" by Grimwood and Kay, page 67.
Local climate
Walls of Burial Ground of Friends Meeting House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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