4-6, Shilling Street is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1958. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

4-6, Shilling Street

WRENN ID
sombre-hall-ash
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 January 1958
Type
Cottage
Address
4-6, Shilling Street, Lavenham, CO10 9RH
OS grid reference
TL 917 492
Coordinates
52.10851, 0.79875
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a range of small timber-framed and plastered cottages dating from the 17th to 18th centuries, located on Shilling Street in Lavenham. The cottages now function as two tenements. They are one storey high with attics. The front features small casement windows and boarded doors, and is topped by three gabled dormers. A ridge chimney stack is also visible.

Local climate

4-6, Shilling Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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