Premises Occupied by Piano Workshop/Salesroom Behind Number 65 and Attached Wall is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. Workshop.
Premises Occupied by Piano Workshop/Salesroom Behind Number 65 and Attached Wall
- WRENN ID
- broken-frieze-river
- 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
- Workshop
- Address
- Premises Occupied by Piano Workshop/Salesroom Behind Number 65 and Attached Wall, Whiting Street, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 853 639
- Coordinates
- 52.24274, 0.71281
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, originally a snuff and tobacco factory, is now a workshop and salesroom for a piano business. It dates from the 18th century and is constructed from kidney flint with red brick dressings, topped by a tiled mansard roof featuring a brick parapet and band. The structure is two storeys high with an attic and is set back at right angles to Whiting Street. The exterior includes 20th-century replacement windows and double garage-type doors. A flint wall extends along the east side, forming a high garden wall that connects to the side of Number 65. To the west, there is an adjoining house that has been roughcast and has a flat roof due to fire damage in the 1960s. Inside, the building has three bays on the ground floor and two bays above, overlapping with the adjacent house. Both storeys feature open timber ceilings, with joists and cross-beams set on edge. The roof has rafters on edge and a ridge piece. To the west, a cross-wing that was once part of the house is now a salesroom, consisting of four bays with only the main ceiling beams visible.
Local climate
Premises Occupied by Piano Workshop/Salesroom Behind Number 65 and Attached Wall 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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