2, Prentice Street is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1962. Residential.
2, Prentice Street
- WRENN ID
- iron-pilaster-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1962
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- 2, Prentice Street, Lavenham
- OS grid reference
- TL 916 493
- Coordinates
- 52.10961, 0.79748
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 2 Prentice Street is a timber-framed and plastered building located on the north side of Prentice Street in Lavenham. It likely dates back to the 16th century but has undergone significant alterations in the 19th century and has been renovated. The roof is tiled and features a ridge chimney stack on the cross wing. The building has two storeys, and the windows are modern casements with leaded lights. The gables of both the main block and the cross wing have 19th-century cut and shaped bargeboards.
Local climate
2, 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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- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2002
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