C and C Fabrics, Saxon Furnishings, Antiques, and Brandon Motor Cycles is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1984. Shop.
C and C Fabrics, Saxon Furnishings, Antiques, and Brandon Motor Cycles
- WRENN ID
- winding-kitchen-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1984
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- C and C Fabrics, Saxon Furnishings, Antiques, and Brandon Motor Cycles, 47 and 49, High Street
- OS grid reference
- TL 783 866
- Coordinates
- 52.44903, 0.62335
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
C and C Fabrics, Saxon Furnishings, Antiques, and Brandon Motor Cycles is a building that originally served as a house known as London House. It dates from the early 16th century, with alterations made in the early 18th century and late 19th century. The building has a three-cell cross-passage entrance plan and stands two storeys high. It features a timber-framed structure that is encased at the front in 19th-century gault brick. The roof is pantiled with parapet gables made of gault brick.
On the first floor, there are large-paned sash windows from the late 19th century. No. 47 has a pair of 20th-century shop windows with a glazed entrance door in between. No. 49 features a late 19th-century shop front shared by Antiques and Brandon Motor Cycles, which includes pilasters at either end and glazed entrance doors. The hall, now part of Saxon Furnishings and Antiques, has heavily rib-moulded first floor members and a section of a plank-and-muntin cross-passage screen that has been slightly repositioned to the right.
A first-floor room contains carved oak decoration from the late 16th century, which is concealed by a 20th-century ceiling. This room features a depressed four-centred arch with a moulded drop finial and applied brattishing that continues, though incomplete, as a cornice dividing the ceiling into two segments. At the rear, there is an early 18th-century extension that has been much altered in the 20th century. This extension is five bays wide and two storeys high, constructed of gault brick with red brick dressings, dentil eaves, and flat-arched openings made of finely gauged red brick. The roof of the extension is hipped and pantiled.
Local climate
C and C Fabrics, Saxon Furnishings, Antiques, and Brandon Motor Cycles sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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