The Transport Cafe is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 October 1971. Cafe.
The Transport Cafe
- WRENN ID
- shifting-mullion-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 October 1971
- Type
- Cafe
- Address
- The Transport Cafe, Bulmer Road, Sudbury
- OS grid reference
- TL 863 406
- Coordinates
- 52.03337, 0.71568
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Transport Cafe is a building that likely originated in the 17th century and has been altered in the 18th century and later. It stands two storeys tall and features double-hung windows with glazing bars, as well as a ground floor shop bow window. The roof is covered with old tiles. The Transport Cafe, along with The King's Head Public House, forms a group with other listed buildings on the north-west side of Ballingdon Street.
Local climate
The Transport Cafe 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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