54-58, Fore Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 March 1975. Commercial.
54-58, Fore Street
- WRENN ID
- upper-brass-ivory
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Ipswich
- Constituency
- Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 March 1975
- Type
- Commercial
- OS grid reference
- TM 167 441
- Coordinates
- 52.05365, 1.16029
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
54-58 Fore Street is an early 19th-century building with a brick front that conceals an older structure. It stands three storeys high and features a three-window arrangement of double-hung sash windows with glazing bars set in plain reveals. The outer windows are three-light. There is a brick band between the first and second storeys, and the ground storey has a late 19th-century shop front beneath a cornice. The roof is flat-pitched and covered with slate.
Inside, the first floor boasts enriched plaster ceilings that are comparable to those found in the Three Cups Hotel in Harwich. One ceiling is designed as a compartmented structure with plaster embellishments depicting foliage trails and shaped angular panels surrounding a central square with a boss, along with flower bunches in the panels. The other ceiling features an oval central panel adorned with a Tudor rose and fleur-de-lys. These ceilings likely date from the late 16th or early 17th century.
Local climate
54-58, Fore 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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