Cafe Blanchfleur is a Grade II* listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1972. Café.
Cafe Blanchfleur
- WRENN ID
- worn-gutter-lichen
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Ipswich
- Constituency
- Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1972
- Type
- Café
- Address
- Cafe Blanchfleur, 56 and 58, St Margaret's Street
- OS grid reference
- TM 165 447
- Coordinates
- 52.05917, 1.15737
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cafe Blanchfleur, located at Nos 56 and 58 on St Margaret's Street, is a building dating from the 16th to 17th century. Originally facing west, it was largely reconstructed in the 20th century due to road widening, resulting in the west front being rebuilt to face south. Although much of the building has been reconstructed, it has retained its 16th to 17th century character. The structure has two storeys and attics, featuring three gables, with the central gable slightly projecting. The first storey and gables are jettied at the front, adorned with carved bressumers and carved bargeboards. The building includes a three-window range with mullioned and transomed windows fitted with leaded lights. The central window also projects slightly and has a moulded sill supported by brackets. The roof is tiled. Inside, there are remnants of 17th century plaster ceilings decorated with fleur-de-lis. Cafe Blanchfleur forms a group with several nearby structures, including Nos 2 to 8 (even), No 1 (Lodge to Christchurch Mansion), the Entrance Wall and Gates to Christchurch Park, and the Brick Wall to St Margaret's Church Yard on Soane Street.
Local climate
Cafe Blanchfleur 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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