36, Churchgate Street is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1952. House.
36, Churchgate Street
- WRENN ID
- pale-gutter-gold
- 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
- House
- Address
- 36, Churchgate Street, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 855 640
- Coordinates
- 52.24366, 0.71599
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 36 Churchgate Street is a house that has been converted into offices, located in Bury St Edmunds. It was built around 1810 to 1820 and is constructed of red brick, featuring a plain parapet and a moulded stucco cornice, topped with black glazed pantiles. The building stands three storeys tall and has a return front to Athenaeum Lane.
The exterior has a two-window range, with 12-pane sash windows on the first storey and 6-pane sash windows on the second storey, all set in flush cased frames with flat gauged brick arches. The entrance features a doorcase with reeded half-round engaged columns, a plain pediment, and a cornice with mutules on the soffit. Above the entrance is a rectangular fanlight with decorative glazing, leading to a six-panel door, likely from the Edwardian period, which has four sunk panels and two flush bottom panels. There are two plain chimney-stacks located internally on the east wall, each with high narrow rectangular shafts topped by four chimney-pots.
Inside, there is a through passage that includes a 20th-century replacement rear door, which has an original fanlight that matches the one above the entrance. The staircase features stick balusters and a ramped wreathed handrail. Internal shutters with sunk panels are present, and the fireplace in the ground-storey room has a decorated eared architrave. Both rooms on the first storey have reeded fireplace surrounds that are styled similarly to the entrance doorway.
Local climate
36, 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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