26, Abbeygate Street is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. House, shop.

26, Abbeygate Street

WRENN ID
upper-thatch-yarrow
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, shop
Address
26, Abbeygate Street, Bury St. Edmunds
OS grid reference
TL 854 642
Coordinates
52.245, 0.71514
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

26 Abbeygate Street is a former house and shop, now a shop with the upper storeys incorporated into No. 25. It dates from the early 19th century and features a timber frame with roughcast rendering and a slate roof. The building has three storeys, with two windows on each of the upper levels. One of these is a three-light sash window without glazing bars, while the others are sashes with glazing bars. The shop front is adorned with ornate console brackets and a late 20th-century fascia.

Local climate

26, Abbeygate 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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