41 and 42, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1977. Houses, shops.
41 and 42, High Street
- WRENN ID
- north-lancet-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Lowestoft MP: Jess Asato (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1977
- Type
- Houses, shops
- Address
- 41 and 42, High Street, Lowestoft
- OS grid reference
- TM 551 938
- Coordinates
- 52.48327, 1.75655
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
41 and 42 High Street is a pair of houses and shops, now functioning as two shops and four flats. Originally built in the late 14th century, the buildings were rebuilt in the 17th century and again in the mid-19th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. The structure is made of brick and features asbestos slate and natural slate roofs. It has a double-pile plan and stands three storeys tall, with four window bays. The ground floor has two late 20th-century shop fronts, while the upper two floors each have four top-hung late 20th-century casements, with those on No. 41 featuring rendered skewback arches. The roof is gabled with internal gable-end stacks, and the rear pile is similar in design. There are two 2-storey cross wings that recede to the east from the rear, which have 20th-century details.
Inside, the buildings primarily feature 20th-century details, except for the late 14th-century cellar beneath No. 41. The cellar has limewashed brick walls and is divided into two compartments by a wide double-chamfered 4-centred brick arch. The southern compartment contains a flight of brick steps leading to the street, which is now blocked. The east and west walls of this compartment are marked by 4-centred chamfered brick arches that lead to small recessed chambers with barrel vaults. Each recess arch has an engaged circular respond with polygonal capitals. The roof is supported by a forest of 20th-century brick piers, as the original vault has been removed. The northern compartment features a quadripartite brick vault with hollow-chamfered ribs on corbels, and there are no wall niches or responds. In the north-east corner, there is a brick winder staircase with moulded circular newel bricks, which is blocked at ceiling level.
Local climate
41 and 42, 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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