Berners House is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1977. House. 1 related planning application.

Berners House

WRENN ID
carved-lancet-ebony
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ipswich
Constituency
Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 December 1977
Type
House
Address
Berners House, 56, Berners Street, IP1 3LU
OS grid reference
TM 159 450
Coordinates
52.06143, 1.14943
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Berners House is an early to mid-19th century white brick house located on Berners Street. It stands three storeys tall with a basement and features a three-window range. The windows are double-hung sashes without glazing bars, set in painted reveals, and topped with stucco cornice lintels. The doorway is adorned with a stucco architrave and a cornice supported by console brackets. The roof is covered with slate.

Local climate

Berners House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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