The Old Chemist's Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1955. Shop.
The Old Chemist's Shop
- WRENN ID
- fading-plinth-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1955
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- The Old Chemist's Shop, Church Street, Stradbroke
- OS grid reference
- TM 231 738
- Coordinates
- 52.31778, 1.27233
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Chemist's Shop is a house and veterinary surgery dating from around 1600. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, showing some traces of ashlar-lining. The building has a pantiled roof, although the front slope has been covered with modern concrete tiles. It stands two storeys high and features three 19th-century casement windows. The entrance includes a 19th-century doorway with an architrave, cornice, and a half-glazed four-panel door. To the left of the doorway, there is a pair of French windows topped with a pedimented cornice. On the right side, there are canted former shop windows that were rebuilt in the mid-20th century. An internal stack is present, but the interior has not been examined.
Local climate
The Old Chemist's Shop sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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