27 and 28, Market Place is a Grade I listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1958. A Medieval House.
27 and 28, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- dark-grate-dew
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1958
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- 27 and 28, Market Place, Lavenham
- OS grid reference
- TL 916 492
- Coordinates
- 52.10878, 0.79667
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 27 and 28 in Lavenham Marketplace is a timber-framed and plastered building dating from the 15th to 16th century. It features exposed timber-framing and has a tiled roof. The building stands two storeys high, with the upper storey jettied on exposed joists and a carved bressumer. There are two ranges of restored bar and transom lattice leaded casements. This property was donated to the Lavenham Preservation Society by Sir Cuthbert Quilter, the former owner of the Guildhall, and is currently owned by the National Trust. It is graded as part of the Guildhall range.
Local climate
27 and 28, Market Place 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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