4, Angel Hill is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1952. Shop.

4, Angel Hill

WRENN ID
drifting-chapel-yarrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 August 1952
Type
Shop
Address
4, Angel Hill, Bury St. Edmunds
OS grid reference
TL 854 642
Coordinates
52.24481, 0.71557
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 4 Angel Hill is a shop with living accommodation above, dating from the 16th century, 18th century, and early 19th century. The building is timber-framed and rendered in raised rectangular panels, topped with a plaintile roof. It has two storeys, attics, and a cellar, featuring a three-cell front range with an internal chimney and a former lobby entrance. At right angles to the front range is an 18th-century rear range, which forms an L-shape partly infilled by an early 19th-century extension.

The right half of the main roof has twin gables with plain bargeboards and a wide moulded eaves cornice. The façade has four windows, which are 16-pane sashes in flush cased frames. The shop front is from the 20th century and features small-paned windows in a Regency style. There are two entrance doors: one is recessed for the shop, while the other, located on the left, is a six-panelled door with linenfold carving, plain pilasters, and a triangular pediment.

The rear range, aligned east-west, has a mansard roof that extends over the front roof and features 12-pane sash windows. The 19th-century extension has a gabled roof, with painted brick on the ground storey, roughcast above, and small-paned sash windows.

Inside, the cellars below part of the front and rear have been modernised. Original features in the front range are concealed, with the rear wall partly removed and the chimney stack tunnelled through to provide access to the 19th-century extension. On the upper storey, two rooms to the right of the stack have been combined into one, and there is a disused angle fireplace in the north-west corner. The main posts of the chimney bay are exposed, showing mortices for former long braces. The roof features clasped purlins in six bays with deep cambered collars. The 19th-century extension includes a winder stair with stick balusters and a wreathed handrail, along with several 18th-century six-panelled doors with raised fielded panels remaining inside the building.

Local climate

4, Angel Hill 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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