Elim Church is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1972. Theatre. 2 related planning applications.
Elim Church
- WRENN ID
- lunar-gutter-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ipswich
- Constituency
- Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1972
- Type
- Theatre
- Address
- Elim Church, Tower Street, IP1 3BE
- OS grid reference
- TM 163 446
- Coordinates
- 52.05805, 1.15468
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elim Church is a building with a late 18th century or early 19th century front that is timber-framed and plastered, likely built over an earlier structure. It has been rebuilt behind to serve as a theatre. The building has two storeys and features an eight-window range with double-hung sashes that lack glazing bars, set in flush cased frames with stucco architraves and cornices. At the north end, there are three larger windows topped by a modillion pediment supported on brackets, featuring a stucco roundel in the tympanum. The ground storey includes three doorways: two adorned with pilasters and cornices, and a central doorway with a moulded architrave and keystone, topped by a segmental pediment. The roof is tiled and has five flat-headed dormers, along with a wood modillioned eaves cornice. Elim Church is part of a group that includes Nos 13 to 21 (odd) and St Mary-le-Tower Church.
Local climate
Elim Church 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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