53, Gainsborough Street is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1952. House.
53, Gainsborough Street
- WRENN ID
- dusk-hammer-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- 53, Gainsborough Street, Sudbury
- OS grid reference
- TL 872 412
- Coordinates
- 52.03828, 0.7292
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 53 Gainsborough Street is a building dating from 1692, likely originating in the 17th century but significantly altered in the 18th century and later. It has two storeys and attics, with a timber-framed and plastered structure, and tiled roofs. The front features a parapet above a cornice, and the upper storey projects over an early 19th-century double shop front that has been altered. The building has a three-window range with sash windows that now only have centre glazing bars on the upper storey. There is a separate entrance with a six-panel door. The interior once had remnants of painting on the wall from around 1610, which have now been removed, revealing an arched doorhead.
Local climate
53, Gainsborough Street 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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