52, Friars Street is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1952. House. 3 related planning applications.
52, Friars Street
- WRENN ID
- standing-cupola-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- 52, Friars Street, Sudbury, CO10 2AG
- OS grid reference
- TL 871 410
- Coordinates
- 52.03636, 0.72742
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century red brick building with a plastered and painted front, located on the north-west side of Friars Street. The building is two storeys high and has a tiled, hipped roof. An East end weatherboarded addition provides a carriageway and is roofed with sheeting. The front elevation features a wood modillion eaves cornice. It has a three-window range with sash windows, mostly with glazing bars, and a two-light window on the upper floor at the centre. The central doorway is topped with a simple open pediment supported by consoles, and contains a six-panel door. It forms a group with numbers 24 to 28 and 32 to 68 on the same side of the street.
Local climate
52, 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 — 1 transaction since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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