3, Station Road is a Grade II* listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1972. Shop. 9 related planning applications.
3, Station Road
- WRENN ID
- blind-pewter-swallow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1972
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 3, Station Road, Stowmarket, IP14 1EF
- OS grid reference
- TM 048 587
- Coordinates
- 52.18852, 0.99599
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 3 Station Road is a shop that was formerly a house and shop, dating from the late 14th century, with alterations made in the early 15th century and the 20th century. The building features a plastered and colourwashed timber frame, with roofs made of plain tiles and concrete corrugated tiles. The late 14th-century section runs parallel to the road on the right, while an early 15th-century range has been added at the gable end on the left, over a square-headed carriage entrance. The building has two storeys and an attic.
To the right of the carriage entrance, there is a late 19th-century plate-glass shopfront, which has been somewhat altered in the 20th century. The carriage arch leads to a close-studded passage that includes a late 20th-century display window. Above the passage, there is a jettied gable supported by two consoles, which is lit by a late 18th-century three-light casement window with leaded glazing. The gabled roof is present above this section.
The range on the right, which is parallel to the road, also has a jettied first floor, although the jetty is obscured by 20th-century fascia board. This section includes one four-over-eight sash window and has a gabled roof covered with plain tiles, featuring a sloping dormer at the extreme right.
Inside, the shop has boxed bridging beams. The frame includes tension braces at the first floor level. The roof of the north-south block is supported by two early 15th-century octagonal crown posts, which have splayed feet and tops. The tops are connected to the crown purlin and collars by four arched braces. Some tie beams on arched braces are missing. The roof of the east-west block retains one late 14th-century octagonal crown post with a moulded capital and two cranked braces leading to the collar. There are two additional braces that were once connected to a missing crown purlin. The junction of the two blocks features exterior plaster, indicating that the east-west block was once free-standing.
Local climate
3, Station Road sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 3 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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