57, Fore Street is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1981. Warehouse. 5 related planning applications.
57, Fore Street
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-tin-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ipswich
- Constituency
- Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1981
- Type
- Warehouse
- OS grid reference
- TM 167 442
- Coordinates
- 52.05396, 1.16019
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 57 on Fore Street is a warehouse that has been converted into offices. It dates from the 15th to 16th century and was dismantled in 1982 before being re-erected on this site between 1989 and 1990. The building features a timber-frame structure with brick and stucco, and an L-shaped roof covered with 20th-century tiles and slates. It has two storeys and a three-window range, with six windows on the ground floor and an entrance located at the rear. Inside, the warehouse retains six bays of framing in the longer wing and four bays in the shorter wing. The first floor and roof are mostly intact, with wall posts partially surviving to the ground floor. The building showcases close studding with tension braces and ties, as well as curved braces. The roof has a single tier of purlins with curved windbraces, collars, and coupled rafters. This structure is a very rare example of a warehouse from Ipswich.
Local climate
57, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- 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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