St Mary Le Tower Church House is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1972. Church house. 1 related planning application.
St Mary Le Tower Church House
- WRENN ID
- ruined-quoin-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ipswich
- Constituency
- Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1972
- Type
- Church house
- Address
- St Mary Le Tower Church House, Oak Lane, IP1 3BN
- OS grid reference
- TM 164 447
- Coordinates
- 52.05846, 1.15591
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Mary Le Tower Church House is an L-shaped timber-framed and plastered building, likely dating from the 16th or 17th century, with many features from the 18th century. It has two storeys and attics. The building has three windows facing Oak Lane and four windows overlooking the Tower Church yard, all featuring double-hung sashes with glazing bars in flush cased frames. The central section of the building projects slightly and rises above the eaves line, topped with a pedimented dormer that has side scrolls and a three-light window. There is a central doorway with a six-panel door, where the upper panels are glazed, and this is adorned with an open pediment supported by enriched console brackets, along with an architrave decorated with egg and dart moulding. The Churchyard side features a three-light oriel bay window on the first storey, situated above a 20th-century doorway. The roof is tiled and has a modillion eaves cornice on both fronts. St Mary Le Tower Church House is part of a group that includes the Church, No 7 (Pykenham), and the garden wall to No 9 Northgate Street.
Local climate
St Mary Le Tower Church House 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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
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