1 and 3 Lower Brook Street and 2 Tacket Street is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1972. Commercial. 2 related planning applications.

1 and 3 Lower Brook Street and 2 Tacket Street

WRENN ID
hidden-rubble-moon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ipswich
Constituency
Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 August 1972
Type
Commercial
Address
1 and 3 Lower Brook Street and 2 Tacket Street, IP4 1AY
OS grid reference
TM 164 444
Coordinates
52.05591, 1.15618
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a timber-framed building dating from around 1260, with a significantly altered appearance from the mid-to-late 19th century. It occupies a prominent corner position on Lower Brook Street and Tacket Street, projecting into Upper Brook Street and visually terminating the southern end of the street. The building is two storeys high with attics and cellars, and has an overall five-window front. The Tacket Street elevation has two double-hung sash windows with margin glazing bars. The Lower Brook Street elevation has one double-hung sash window with glazing bars, set within a flush cased frame. Number 3, incorporated within the main building, is a two-storey timber-framed structure with two three-light oriel bay windows beneath a wide, overhanging eaves. The ground floor currently houses 19th-century shop fronts. A continuous balustraded parapet with name panels and a stucco modillion cornice run along the top of the building, while the roofs are tiled, with more recent tiling on the Tacket Street side.

Local climate

1 and 3 Lower Brook Street and 2 Tacket 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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