38, Abbeygate Street is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. Shop.
38, Abbeygate Street
- WRENN ID
- lone-attic-bramble
- 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
- Shop
- Address
- 38, Abbeygate Street, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 854 642
- Coordinates
- 52.24477, 0.71485
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
38 Abbeygate Street is a shop that was formerly used as living accommodation above. It dates from the early 19th century but has a 16th-century cellar. The building is timber-framed and rendered, topped with a slate roof that features a paired modillion eaves cornice.
The exterior consists of three storeys and cellars, with a three-window range. The windows are small-paned sashes set in cased frames, adorned with ornate wooden architraves and small cornices. The ground storey has a 20th-century shop front.
Inside, the cellar is divided into two halves by a partition wall. The eastern half has two bays and retains a 16th-century supporting timber framework that is corbelled out from the walls, with long arched braces leading to one tie-beam and plain, flat joists. The western half of the cellar has partially collapsed but appears to extend beneath the street.
Local climate
38, Abbeygate 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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