Black Boy Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1952. Hotel. 9 related planning applications.
Black Boy Hotel
- WRENN ID
- tilted-groin-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1952
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Black Boy Hotel, Market Hill, Sudbury, CO10 6EA
- OS grid reference
- TL 873 413
- Coordinates
- 52.03851, 0.73
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Black Boy Hotel is a 17th-century building located on Market Hill. The front was restored in 1901, featuring a large gable on the second floor above twin first-floor mullion transom oriel windows. There is also a small second-floor gable and a three-light first-floor mullion window situated above a four-centred arched carriageway, which is ceiled with massive hewn beams. The building has leaded windows and a tiled roof. Inside, it boasts massive hewn moulded beams, heavy joists, and chamfered crossbeams. The hotel has local historical significance. The Black Boy Hotel, along with Nos 1 to 6 and 8 to 22, and the Town Hall, forms a group of listed buildings.
Local climate
Black Boy Hotel 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.
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- Related listed building consents — 9 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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