1, Athenaeum Lane is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. Shop.
1, Athenaeum Lane
- WRENN ID
- narrow-plinth-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1972
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 1, Athenaeum Lane, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 855 641
- Coordinates
- 52.24398, 0.71583
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 1 Athenaeum Lane is a shop dating from the 18th century. It features a timber-framed structure with roughcast rendering and a mansard roof that has a modillion eaves cornice. The lower slope and the half hip on the south side are slated, while the rest of the roof is covered with pantiles.
The building has two storeys and attics. On the upper storey, there are two late-19th century sash windows with a single vertical bar to the lights, set in flush cased frames. The ground storey has a tripartite late-19th century sash window with diminished side lights, also in a flush cased frame. In the south wall of the attic, there is a 2-light casement window featuring arched Gothick heads with intersecting tracery. On the east side, a dormer with a lead-covered segmental-arched roof contains a 2-light small-paned casement window. The entrance door, located on the left, has six moulded sunk panels, with the top two being glazed. Due to settlement, the door frame is skewed. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
1, Athenaeum Lane sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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