70, Water Street is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1958. Building.

70, Water Street

WRENN ID
bitter-cornice-sunrise
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 January 1958
Type
Building
Address
70, Water Street, Lavenham
OS grid reference
TL 915 491
Coordinates
52.10748, 0.79598
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 70 on Water Street is an 18th-century building constructed from flint with brick dressings, featuring a gable facing the street. The roof is tiled and has a mansard style. The building stands two storeys tall with attics and includes one range of leaded casement windows. The entrance to No. 70 is located at the eastern end of the window range, next to Nos. 71 to 73, which are adjacent to the west.

Local climate

70, Water 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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