The Christopher Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 October 1971. Inn. 1 related planning application.
The Christopher Inn
- WRENN ID
- guardian-render-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 October 1971
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Christopher Inn, 9 and 10, Gainsborough Street, Sudbury, CO10 2EU
- OS grid reference
- TL 872 412
- Coordinates
- 52.03805, 0.72852
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Christopher Inn, located on Gainsborough Street in a group with numbers 9 to 15 and number 46, dates to 1692. The front of the building is from the 18th and 19th centuries, constructed with plastered brick and covered by a slate roof. The two-story facade has a five-window arrangement of sash windows with glazing bars. The central three windows project slightly forward. A rounded corner faces Christopher Lane, featuring a three-light, rounded window on the first floor. A timber-framed wing extends down Christopher Lane.
Local climate
The Christopher Inn 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 — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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