30, Churchgate Street is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. House/shop.
30, Churchgate Street
- WRENN ID
- knotted-basalt-bone
- 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
- 30, Churchgate Street, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 854 640
- Coordinates
- 52.24357, 0.71531
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
30 Churchgate Street is a house that has been converted into a shop with a flat above. The front part of the building dates back to the 16th century, while the front was raised and altered in the early 19th century, and there is a 17th-century extension at the rear. The structure is timber-framed, featuring old roughcast render, with painted brick on the ground floor and a slate roof with plain eaves soffit.
The building has three storeys and a cellar, with one window on each level. The first storey has a 16-pane sash window in a heavy, slightly projecting cased frame, while the top storey features a smaller sash window in a similar frame with a single vertical bar. The ground floor includes a 16-pane sash window set in plain reveals with a stone sill. To the left, there is a modern small-paned entrance door within a semicircular brick arched opening, topped by an original fanlight with tracery in three intersecting circles. The rear range has a wide gable that is shared with the adjoining property at No. 31.
Inside, the cellar, which extends into No. 31, has walls made of rough squared stone blocks and a replaced timber ceiling with a large reused main beam. On the ground floor, the studding of the rear wall of the front range has been exposed, revealing substantial, mostly reused timber. One of the studs is part of a wall plate and shows housings for the rafter ends.
Local climate
30, Churchgate 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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