Ashfords (York Buildings) is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1984. Shop.
Ashfords (York Buildings)
- WRENN ID
- odd-baluster-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1984
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- Ashfords (York Buildings), High Street, Newmarket
- OS grid reference
- TL 643 633
- Coordinates
- 52.24343, 0.40523
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ashfords, also known as York Buildings, is a shop built in 1832, as indicated by a painted stone plaque. The building features six windows and stands three storeys tall, with attics above a central block that is two windows wide. It is constructed of gault brick and has a wooden broken pediment above the central block. The roof is slated and includes axial chimneys made of gault brick. The oversailing eaves have a deep soffit that is decorated with stars, although some of this decoration has been partly renewed. The sash windows vary in style: the first-floor windows have moulded architraves and cornices supported by console brackets, while the second-floor windows are small-pane sashes with semi-circular arched heads in the center and segmental arched heads on the sides. Several windows still have 19th-century blind boxes. A mid-20th century shop front runs the full length of the building.
Local climate
Ashfords (York Buildings) 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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