Premises Occupied by Chilvers (Drapery Stores) is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1955. A Georgian Commercial. 1 related planning application.

Premises Occupied by Chilvers (Drapery Stores)

WRENN ID
pale-buttress-marsh
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 July 1955
Type
Commercial
Period
Georgian
Address
Premises Occupied by Chilvers (Drapery Stores), Market Place, Botesdale, IP22 1BT
OS grid reference
TM 047 758
Coordinates
52.34262, 1.00479
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The premises occupied by Chilvers (Drapery Stores) are located in Botesdale Market Place and date from the early 19th century. The building was reduced in height in the early 20th century and features white brick with some red brick, along with a stuccoed ground floor. It has a shallow hipped slate roof and consists of three bays over two storeys, with a cellar, having originally been three storeys tall.

The ground floor shop facade includes three large 16-pane windows, which are flanked by four pairs of stucco pilasters. The inner doors are recessed and consist of four panels with rectangular fanlights above. There is also a fascia board with a cornice. On the first floor, there are three recessed glazing bar sashes with gauged brick flat arched heads and boxed eaves.

The right return of the building continues the shop front, featuring a 16-pane window with flanking pilasters and a first-floor sash window. At the rear right, there is a broad extruded white brick stack adjoining Honister House. The left return is made of red brick and includes a cellar window with a cambered head. To the rear left, there is a lower two-storey red brick and pantiled bay that has a 24-pane former butcher's shop window with pilasters and an entablature, along with a first-floor three-light casement and a projection for a cellar entrance with a large door.

Local climate

Premises Occupied by Chilvers (Drapery Stores) 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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