55, Friars Street is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 October 1971. Residential building.

55, Friars Street

WRENN ID
sleeping-finial-poplar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 October 1971
Type
Residential building
Address
55, Friars Street, Sudbury
OS grid reference
TL 870 410
Coordinates
52.03617, 0.72599
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 55 on Friars Street is an early 19th-century building that stands two storeys high and features three windows, including a central blank panel. The windows mainly consist of flush frame casements, with some being sash windows that have glazing bars. The building has wide eaves supported by widely spaced shaped brackets. A porch with fluted Ionic columns and a dentil entablature leads to the entrance, which has a door with a single large bolection moulded panel. The property includes a lawned garden. Nos. 53 to 57 (odd) form a group with this building.

Local climate

55, 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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