43 and 44, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1993. Shop, flat.

43 and 44, High Street

WRENN ID
twelfth-cobble-pine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Lowestoft MP: Jess Asato (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 June 1993
Type
Shop, flat
Address
43 and 44, High Street, Lowestoft
OS grid reference
TM 551 938
Coordinates
52.48314, 1.75656
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

43 and 44 High Street is a pair of shops with flats above, dating from the 16th century but rebuilt in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of gault brick and has a slate roof. It stands three storeys high and is divided into two bays. The ground floor features two 20th-century shop fronts, while the first floor is lit by two late 20th-century windows set under rendered skewback arches. The second floor has two 3/3 sash windows. A painted sign indicates "Town Hall Storeys Est. 1837." The roof is gabled with a central ridge stack. The rear elevation is rendered and has 20th-century casement windows. There is also a rendered two-storey cross wing extending east, which ends with an external stack, all with 20th-century details.

Inside, the ground floor retains roll-moulded bridging beams. The first floor rooms feature cambered ceilings and include two mullioned windows. In the first-floor flat at the rear, there are early 17th-century religious text wall paintings, and roof trusses are reported to be surviving.

Local climate

43 and 44, High Street receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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