25 and 26, Buttermarket is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. Shops.
25 and 26, Buttermarket
- WRENN ID
- quiet-rotunda-hemlock
- 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
- Shops
- Address
- 25 and 26, Buttermarket, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 853 642
- Coordinates
- 52.24567, 0.71321
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
25 and 26 Buttermarket are two shops with storage above, originally a house, dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century, with an early 19th-century front. The building is timber-framed and rendered, topped with a slate roof featuring a paired modillion eaves cornice. It has three windows, which are small-paned sashes in flush cased frames, and two 20th-century shop fronts on the ground floor.
Inside, No. 25 boasts a remarkable original plaster ceiling from the late 16th or early 17th century, which is in good condition. The ceiling features heavily moulded panels with pendant bosses adorned with acanthus-leaf decoration at their intersections, along with fleur-de-lys and sprays of oak leaves and vines in low relief. Additionally, two wall paintings dated to around 1610 were discovered on a chimney-breast in 1956; one was restored and temporarily placed within the building until it was removed during extensive renovations in the 1980s.
Local climate
25 and 26, 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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