The Gainsborough Bookshop is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 October 1971. Shop. 2 related planning applications.
The Gainsborough Bookshop
- WRENN ID
- eternal-spire-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 October 1971
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- The Gainsborough Bookshop, 12, Gainsborough Street, Sudbury, CO10 2EU
- OS grid reference
- TL 872 412
- Coordinates
- 52.03805, 0.72825
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gainsborough Bookshop is probably an 18th-century building of three storeys and one window. It is stuccoed and painted, with a slate roof. The windows are flush frame sash windows, now with central glazing bars only. A 19th-century wooden shop front features consoles and a central entrance. The building is included on the list for its group value with numbers 9 to 15 (consecutive) and number 46.
Local climate
The Gainsborough Bookshop 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- 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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