Number 2 (The Corner Shop) Including Premises Occupied by Dr R Grey (Optician) and Premises Occupied by Kay's Restaurant is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Shop, restaurant, optician.
Number 2 (The Corner Shop) Including Premises Occupied by Dr R Grey (Optician) and Premises Occupied by Kay's Restaurant
- WRENN ID
- still-bonework-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Lowestoft MP: Jess Asato (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Shop, restaurant, optician
- Address
- Number 2 (The Corner Shop) Including Premises Occupied by Dr R Grey (Optician) and Premises Occupied by Kay's Restaurant, Blyburgate, Beccles
- OS grid reference
- TM 422 902
- Coordinates
- 52.45681, 1.56401
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 2, known as The Corner Shop, includes premises occupied by Dr R Grey (Optician) and Kay's Restaurant. This building dates back to the 17th century and has undergone some alterations. It is two storeys high and features three windows facing Blyburgate. The first-floor windows are sash with exposed frames, glazing bars, and flat arches. The exterior is made of painted brick, and the roof is steep and pantiled, hipped at the rounded corner. The ground floor has altered windows, and there is a six-panel door leading to the restaurant, which has panelled reveals and an eared doorcase with a pulvinated frieze and bracket pediment. The entrance to Dr Grey's premises is plain and extends to the rear onto Hungate. This part of the building is early 19th century, made of white brick, two storeys high, and has four near-flush-frame sash windows, now with only centre glazing bars. The roof is also pantiled. Inside the restaurant, there is a wide fireplace with a beam that has been somewhat altered.
Local climate
Number 2 (The Corner Shop) Including Premises Occupied by Dr R Grey (Optician) and Premises Occupied by Kay's Restaurant receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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