4a, St Marys Square is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. House, office.
4a, St Marys Square
- WRENN ID
- ancient-rubble-equinox
- 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
- House, office
- Address
- 4a, St Marys Square, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 857 638
- Coordinates
- 52.24147, 0.71935
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
4A St Mary's Square is a house and office built in 1811 or 1812, originally serving as a Methodist Chapel. After 1878, it was repurposed for a stay manufactory and later used for both commercial and domestic purposes. The building is constructed of red brick and features a fully hipped pantiled roof with a wide paired modillion eaves soffit.
The exterior is two storeys high with a three-window range on the south front, showcasing small-paned sashes with semicircular heads, radiating glazing bars, plain reveals, and gauged brick arches. A large central entrance from the 20th century includes paired pilasters and a heavy cornice hood, leading to glazed double doors. The east front has an upper row of three small-paned sashes in plain reveals with flat gauged arches. A lean-to structure was added to the rear after 1878, which contains the stair to the upper storey and incorporates part of the east garden wall of No. 4. A plaque on this wall reads, "This wall belongs to (name illegible) 1827."
Inside, there are two rows of reused 17th-century timber posts that support the upper floor, which were inserted after the building stopped being used as a chapel. On the upper storey, the north wall has two former window openings with semicircular heads; one is blocked while the other has been converted into a doorway.
Local climate
4a, St Marys Square 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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