21 and 23, Friars Street is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1952. Shop. 8 related planning applications.
21 and 23, Friars Street
- WRENN ID
- wild-rubble-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1952
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 21 and 23, Friars Street, Sudbury, CO10 2AA
- OS grid reference
- TL 872 411
- Coordinates
- 52.03715, 0.72926
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The buildings at 21 and 23 Friars Street are likely of 17th-century origin, though significantly altered in the 19th century. They are two-storey timber-framed buildings with plastered walls and tiled roofs; number 21 has machine tiles. Number 21 features a ground-floor shop with an early 19th-century shallow, wooden bow window, incorporating reeded pilasters, and two doorways. One doorway has a blank arched fanlight with radial bars. To the right is an early 19th-century flat shop front within a wooden case with slender pilasters. Number 23 has a simpler shop front. The first floor has flush-frame sash windows with glazing bars, two panes to one window.
Local climate
21 and 23, Friars Street 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 2018
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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