31, Crown Street is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1952. A C17 House.
31, Crown Street
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-corner-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- 31, Crown Street, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 855 638
- Coordinates
- 52.24188, 0.71681
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
31 Crown Street is a house dating from the mid to late 17th century, with 18th century and later alterations. It features a timber frame that is jettied, with rendered panels on the upper storey and roughcast on the ground storey. The roof is plaintiled and has a moulded eaves cornice.
The building has two storeys, attics, and a cellar. On the first storey, there are two windows, and on the ground storey, there are three windows, all of which are 12-pane sashes in flush cased frames. The entrance consists of a six-panel door that is accessed by three steps and features a wrought-iron handrail. The door has a moulded architrave and a small rectangular fanlight with vertical glazing bars. There are two gabled dormers, each with two-light small-paned casement windows.
At the rear, there is a range with twin gables that have plain bargeboards and three long 8-pane sash windows in flush cased frames. Inside the cellar, stone blocks support the base of an internal chimney stack. Although the timber frame is mostly covered, the junction of the frame with that of No. 32 can be seen in the attic.
Local climate
31, Crown 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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