55, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1949. House, offices.

55, High Street

WRENN ID
young-alcove-aspen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Lowestoft MP: Jess Asato (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 December 1949
Type
House, offices
Address
55, High Street, Lowestoft
OS grid reference
TM 551 937
Coordinates
52.48236, 1.7562
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · EPC · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

55 High Street is a house that has been converted into offices, dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of brick and features a roof made of concrete tiles. The building stands three storeys tall and is arranged in three bays. The two ground-floor windows are Venetian in style, with glazing bars and set within recessed panels under rounded gauged arches. In the center, there is a door with six fielded panels, topped by a sheet-glass fanlight that is adorned with an iron fanlight featuring seven vanes. The spandrels of the door contain foliage designs, and there is a key-block shaped like a Green Man.

Supporting the structure are a pair of fluted engaged entactic Roman Doric columns, which hold up a metope frieze and a hood decorated with guttae. Egg-and-dart motifs can be found in various places on the building. The first floor features three 3/6 sash windows under gauged skewback arches, while a strong cornice with dentils is located below the second floor, which is lit by three 3/3 sash windows, also under gauged skewback arches. The parapet partly conceals a gabled roof that has one small flat-topped dormer. The building has partly external gable-end stacks on both the north and south sides, both of which have been rebuilt.

At the rear, there are two 2-storey cross wings. Inside, the property features six-panelled doors and an open-string stick baluster staircase with scrolled tread-ends and a ramped handrail. The ground-floor north room includes a 19th-century gun-metal chimneypiece in the Jacobean style, while the cellar is plain. The roof structure consists of principals and purlins.

Local climate

55, 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
  • No related consent applications matched
  • 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Numbers 147 and 147a and Attached Screen Wall Grade II 22 m
  2. Berfield House Grade II 25 m
  3. 149 and 149a-D, High Street Grade II 26 m
  4. The Crown Hotel Grade II 42 m
  5. 49a, 50a and 50b, High Street Grade II 43 m
  6. Crown House Including Railings to Steps and Street Frontage Grade II 52 m
  7. Walls and Steps to Crown Score Grade II 57 m
  8. Barclays Bank Grade II 58 m
  9. 48, High Street Grade II 62 m
  10. 47, High Street Grade II 70 m