The Long Shop is a Grade II* listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1976. A Victorian Workshop. 7 related planning applications.
The Long Shop
- WRENN ID
- fallow-roof-spindle
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 October 1976
- Type
- Workshop
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- The Long Shop, Main Street, Leiston, IP16 4ES
- OS grid reference
- TM 443 625
- Coordinates
- 52.20737, 1.57548
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Long Shop is a building constructed in 1853 as a workshop for the manufacture of portable steam engines. It is currently being restored as a museum. The structure is made of red brick with yellow brick dressings and features a pantile roof with three louvred ventilators at the ridge. At the east end, there is a timber bell-turret. The building is two stories tall, nine bays long (with the center bay wider than the others) and three bays wide. The east end has a tripartite design with a central square-headed entrance and arched windows; the window above the entrance is longer than the four in the outer bays and includes a clock face in the gable above. The west end is similar but has been altered and does not have a clock. All side windows are segmental-headed, with iron glazing bars and set back within the wall surface, giving it a pilastered appearance. Inside, there are fitters' galleries at the first-floor level, leaving an open central well.
Local climate
The Long Shop sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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