71-73, Water Street is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1958. A Medieval House.
71-73, Water Street
- WRENN ID
- solitary-turret-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1958
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- 71-73, Water Street, Lavenham, CO10 9RW
- OS grid reference
- TL 915 491
- Coordinates
- 52.10753, 0.79585
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 71-73 on Water Street is a timber-framed and plastered building dating from the 15th to 16th century, featuring a tiled roof. It has two storeys, with the timber-framing visible on the upper storey, which was originally jettied but later under-built in painted brick. The upper storey has a range of four 18th-century leaded casement windows, while the ground storey has three casements, two of which are also 18th-century leaded.
Local climate
71-73, Water 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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