The Gainsborough Cinema is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1973. Cinema. 2 related planning applications.
The Gainsborough Cinema
- WRENN ID
- broken-soffit-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1973
- Type
- Cinema
- Address
- The Gainsborough Cinema, East Street, Sudbury, CO10 2TP
- OS grid reference
- TL 875 414
- Coordinates
- 52.03962, 0.7326
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gainsborough Cinema, built in 1913, is a two-storey building with a stucco exterior. It features a wide ground floor entrance that has an entablature above plain piers. There are outer pilasters with ornamental heads that extend below similar pilasters, which rise to a small cornice topped with a balustrade section. Adjacent to the entrance is one window, and next to this is a matching pilaster with a higher head that supports a parapet with a segmental top, which includes a round window and decorative swags. Above the entrance, there is a three-light sash window framed by pilasters and an entablature. The interior is said to retain its original features. This building is noted as an early example of a purpose-built cinema.
Local climate
The Gainsborough Cinema 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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