56, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1966. House, shop.
56, High Street
- WRENN ID
- crooked-hearth-rook
- 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, shop
- Address
- 56, High Street, Wickham Market
- OS grid reference
- TM 301 558
- Coordinates
- 52.15299, 1.36232
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 56 is a house that also serves as part of a shop, dating from the late 18th century to early 19th century. It is connected to No. 54 and stands two storeys tall. The building is constructed of gault brick and features a slated roof. There are four main windows, which are sashes set in flush frames with glazing bars and flat gauged brick arches. On the extreme left at the ground floor, there is a curved bay shop window with glazing bars and a concave roof. The entrance doorway is adorned with an architrave and a cornice above, and it contains a six-panel raised and fielded door. The building has two brick stacks, one of which is cement rendered.
Local climate
56, 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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