Green King Brewery Buildings on South West Corner of Crown Street Greene King Premises on South West Corner is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. Brewery.

Green King Brewery Buildings on South West Corner of Crown Street Greene King Premises on South West Corner

WRENN ID
far-brass-shade
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
Brewery
Address
Green King Brewery Buildings on South West Corner of Crown Street Greene King Premises on South West Corner, Bury St. Edmunds
OS grid reference
TL 855 637
Coordinates
52.24091, 0.71677
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Greene King Brewery buildings, located on the south-west corner of Crown Street in Bury St Edmunds, date from the early to mid-19th century. The structure is part of the brewery premises and curves around the corner into Westgate Street. It is constructed from random flint with red brick and features a concrete plaintiled roof. The building is divided into eight bays by plain flat red brick pilasters and is a single storey.

On the Crown Street frontage, there is an additional single-storey range made of dark flint and red brick, topped with a pantiled roof. This roof includes a raised louvred continuous ventilator, also pantiled, and both the roof and the louvre are adorned with heavy moulded pierced and fluted bargeboards. At the north end of the louvre, there is a cast-iron open bell turret with a pointed lead-covered roof. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Green King Brewery Buildings on South West Corner of Crown Street Greene King Premises on South West Corner 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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