74, St Helen's Street is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1977. A C16-C17 Timber-framed building.

74, St Helen's Street

WRENN ID
forbidden-hammer-hyssop
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ipswich
Constituency
Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 December 1977
Type
Timber-framed building
OS grid reference
TM 170 445
Coordinates
52.05641, 1.16392
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

74 St Helen's Street is a timber-framed building dating from the 16th to 17th century. It stands at right angles to the street and features a 20th-century gabled front with a shop on the ground floor. At the rear, there is a timber-framed wing. The roof is tiled. This building is included for its group value.

Local climate

74, St Helen's 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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