68 and 70 High Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1966. House. 4 related planning applications.
68 and 70 High Street
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- 68 and 70 High Street, Wickham Market, IP13 0QU
- OS grid reference
- TM 301 558
- Coordinates
- 52.15324, 1.36301
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
68 and 70 High Street are a house, now divided into a shop and a dwelling, dating to the late 17th century. The building has a roughly L-shaped layout with plaintiled hipped roofs at different levels. It is two storeys high with an attic. The south elevation, facing The Hill, features a modern two-light casement window and a modern three-light casement display window on the ground floor. Scattered modern casement windows are visible on the elevations, along with two dormers with casements. An entrance doorway has a four-panelled door with an architrave and a hood, with the upper panels glazed. Return elevations are finished in pebble-dash render and some external framework is visible. A central brick stack is present.
Local climate
68 and 70 High Street sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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