23 and 24, Water Street is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1958. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
23 and 24, Water Street
- WRENN ID
- hushed-storey-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1958
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 23 and 24, Water Street, Lavenham, CO10 9RN
- OS grid reference
- TL 917 491
- Coordinates
- 52.10719, 0.79844
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These cottages, numbered 23 and 24 Water Street, likely date from the 15th and 16th centuries. Locally known as the Flemish Weavers Cottages, although there's no historical record of Flemish weavers working in Lavenham, the building is timber-framed and plastered, featuring a cross wing extending to the north on Barn Street. The roof is tiled. A large external red brick chimney stack with offsets is situated at the west side of the cross wing. The timber framing is visible on the front elevation. The cottages are one storey in height with attics, and have small casement windows. A gabled dormer window is visible on the main block.
Local climate
23 and 24, Water 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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