20 and 21a, Buttermarket is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. Shop and offices.
20 and 21a, Buttermarket
- WRENN ID
- low-pilaster-reed
- 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
- Shop and offices
- Address
- 20 and 21a, Buttermarket, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 853 643
- Coordinates
- 52.24607, 0.71322
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
20 and 21A Buttermarket is a shop and office building, originally a shop and house, dating from the early 19th century, with some older fragments. The front is made of white brick and features a parapet and a modillion cornice, topped by a slate roof. The building has three storeys and a four-window range, with all windows being small-paned sashes set in plain reveals with stone sills. The first-storey windows are adorned with cast-iron balconies that have honeysuckle ornamentation. There is a raised brick band between the first and second storeys.
Inside, most original features are concealed. On the top storey, the slope of the original roof is visible on the north side, while the south side has a 19th-century brick wall laid in English Bond, which has been faced with 20th-century fletton bricks on the outside.
Local climate
20 and 21a, Buttermarket 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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