31 AND 33, WESTGATE STREET (See details for further address information) is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1972. Commercial building. 1 related planning application.
31 AND 33, WESTGATE STREET (See details for further address information)
- WRENN ID
- upper-floor-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ipswich
- Constituency
- Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1972
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 31 AND 33, WESTGATE STREET (See details for further address information), Museum Street
- OS grid reference
- TM 161 446
- Coordinates
- 52.0585, 1.15085
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 31 and 33 on Westgate Street is a mid-19th century building that features a quadrant corner leading to Museum Street. It is complemented by No 35, creating an attractive entrance to Museum Street. The building stands three stories tall and has a total of six windows, with three facing Westgate Street, one on the corner, and two on Museum Street. The windows are double-hung sashes with glazing bars set in plain reveals, topped with stucco cornice lintels. The central window range on Westgate Street and the end window range on Museum Street are accentuated by ornamental panelled stucco pilasters. The ground floor includes 20th-century shop windows situated between 19th-century fluted Doric columns, topped by a modillioned cornice above the fascia. The roofs are slate with a modillion eaves cornice. Nos 31 and 33 are part of a group that includes No 35, No 2 Museum Street, and Nos 1 and 3 Museum Street.
Local climate
31 AND 33, WESTGATE STREET (See details for further address information) 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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