Town Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1952. Town hall. 7 related planning applications.
Town Hall
- WRENN ID
- rooted-pavement-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1952
- Type
- Town hall
- Address
- Town Hall, Market Hill, Sudbury, CO10 1TL
- OS grid reference
- TL 874 413
- Coordinates
- 52.03907, 0.73133
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Town Hall, built in 1828 by Thomas Ginn of Sudbury, is a two-story building with a basement. It is constructed of Suffolk brick, with the front face stuccoed. The front elevation features a three-window range with sash windows containing glazing bars. A central ground-floor section projects forward, supported by four Ionic columns and topped with a pediment that bears the Borough Arms. The interior includes a hall on the first floor, notable for its enriched plaster cornice. The Town Hall is part of a group that also includes the former gaol archway on Gaol Lane, and numbers 1 to 6 and 8 to 22, Black Boy Hotel.
Local climate
Town Hall 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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