27 and 29, Fore Street is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1972. House.
27 and 29, Fore Street
- WRENN ID
- grey-newel-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ipswich
- Constituency
- Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1972
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- TM 167 442
- Coordinates
- 52.05465, 1.15946
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 27 and 29 on Fore Street are a 17th-century house constructed with a timber frame and plaster. The building has two storeys and attics, featuring a four-window range of mullioned and transomed casements with glazing bars. The ground floor has been altered to accommodate 20th-century shops. The roofs are also 20th-century tiled and include two gabled dormers.
Local climate
27 and 29, 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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