68, Guildhall Street is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. Commercial building.

68, Guildhall Street

WRENN ID
muted-threshold-fen
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
Commercial building
Address
68, Guildhall Street, Bury St. Edmunds
OS grid reference
TL 852 639
Coordinates
52.24213, 0.71204
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

68 Guildhall Street is a house that now functions as a shop. It features an 18th-century front with later alterations. The exterior is finished in painted brick and has a plain tiled roof with a wooden modillion cornice. The building is two storeys high, with a cellar and attics. On the upper storey, there are four sash windows, each with a single vertical glazing bar set in flush cased frames. The ground storey has two sash windows and a shop window with plate glass, framed by a plain surround and a moulded architrave. There are also two hipped dormers, each containing a two-light single bar casement window. The entrance features a panelled half-glazed door that is recessed within a doorcase, which has plain reveals, panelled pilasters, a cornice, and a pediment. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

68, Guildhall Street 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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