Palmers of Yarmouth is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1952. Shop premises.
Palmers of Yarmouth
- WRENN ID
- errant-obsidian-juniper
- 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
- Shop premises
- Address
- Palmers of Yarmouth, Buttermarket, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 853 642
- Coordinates
- 52.24487, 0.71348
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Palmers of Yarmouth is a shop premises located in Bury St Edmunds, originally built in the early 19th century, with some earlier elements. The building features a timber frame that is rendered, topped with a hipped roof covered in plain tiles, and has a parapet adorned with a stucco cornice and chamfered rusticated quoins.
The exterior is three storeys high with a basement and sits on a corner site. The Buttermarket side has a seven-window range, with small-paned sash windows on the second storey. The first storey features four 20th-century plate glass windows and three sashes, each with a single vertical bar, all framed in moulded stucco. On the Abbeygate Street side, there are three small-paned sash windows on the second storey. The first storey has an unusual design with shallow two-sided bays flanked by slender fluted columns, topped with decorated cast-iron friezes. The ground storey has 20th-century shop fronts.
Inside, all earlier features, including Edwardian shop fittings, are hidden from view.
Local climate
Palmers of Yarmouth 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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