21, Tower Street is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1972. Building. 1 related planning application.

21, Tower Street

WRENN ID
high-foundation-sienna
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ipswich
Constituency
Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 August 1972
Type
Building
OS grid reference
TM 164 447
Coordinates
52.059, 1.15527
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

21 Tower Street is an early 19th-century red brick building that was originally three houses. The doorways have been converted into windows. The building has two storeys and features an overall range of eight windows, arranged in a pattern of five and three. The windows are double-hung sashes with glazing bars, set in plain reveals and topped with gauged brick flat arches. The ground floor primarily has three-light windows, while the outer windows in the five-window range have semi-circular arched heads. The three-window range features larger windows, with the centre window on the ground floor, which was originally a doorway, adorned with a stucco architrave and cornice on console brackets. The roofs are covered with slate. Nos 13 to 21 (odd) form a group with the Ipswich Arts Theatre and the Church of St Mary-le-Tower.

Local climate

21, Tower 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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