53 and 55, Wherstead Road is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1972. House.
53 and 55, Wherstead Road
- WRENN ID
- grey-moat-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ipswich
- Constituency
- Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1972
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- TM 165 435
- Coordinates
- 52.04769, 1.15589
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 53 and 55 on Wherstead Road is a timber-framed and plastered building dating from the 16th to 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th century and later. It has two storeys, and the upper storey, which was likely originally jettied, features a carved wall plate and is now built in painted brick. The building has two windows on the upper storey, which are double-hung sashes in flush cased frames, with one window containing glazing bars. The ground storey includes a small shop. The roofs are tiled, with No 53 having a 20th-century roof, and there is a central chimney stack with diagonal shafts.
Local climate
53 and 55, Wherstead Road sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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