27, Cornhill is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. Shop, former house.
27, Cornhill
- WRENN ID
- scattered-vestry-thunder
- 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, former house
- Address
- 27, Cornhill, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 852 643
- Coordinates
- 52.24652, 0.71187
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 27 Cornhill is a shop premises that was formerly a house and shop, dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century, with 20th-century alterations. The building has a timber-framed core, which is fronted in painted brick, featuring a plain parapet and a stucco dentil cornice. It has a plaintiled roof and consists of two storeys with attics. On the first storey, there are two tall sash windows, each with 15 panes in flush cased frames, flat gauged arches, and keystones. The shop front was replaced in the late 20th century with a double shop front. Additionally, there is one hipped dormer and a tall narrow rectangular red brick chimney stack located at the north gable end.
Local climate
27, Cornhill 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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