87, Guildhall Street is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. House.
87, Guildhall Street
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-niche-lark
- 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
- Address
- 87, Guildhall Street, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 852 641
- Coordinates
- 52.24432, 0.7117
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
87 Guildhall Street is a house that has been converted into offices. It dates from the mid-19th century, although it retains parts of a 17th-century rear section. The building is constructed of red brick and features a slate roof with a wooden cornice decorated with modillions.
The exterior consists of three storeys and a cellar, with a four-window arrangement. All windows are sashes with single vertical glazing bars, set in plain reveals. They have stucco flat arches with keystones and projecting stone sills. A raised stucco band runs along the first-storey window-sill level. The entrance features a semicircular doorway with a recessed inner arch, both of which are moulded, and plain reveals. There are footscrapers on either side of the doorway. The front door is four-panelled, with the top two panels sunk and surrounded by applied mouldings, topped by a plain fanlight.
Inside, there is a small cellar mainly from the 19th century beneath part of the front. The main part of the house appears to be entirely from the 19th century, with a winder stair leading to the attic, featuring stick balusters, a wreathed handrail, and unusually large newel posts. To the right of the entrance, remnants of plaster ceiling decoration can be seen in a now-divided room. On the upper storey, both the front and rear rooms have walls with raised wood surrounds framing plaster panels. At the back, there is a high single-storey room with an ornate plaster cornice and a central ceiling piece. Additionally, a narrow 17th-century timber-framed wing at the rear is surrounded by 20th-century extensions, but it retains one exposed ovolo-moulded main beam on the ground floor.
Local climate
87, 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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