17, Tower Street is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1951. House. 11 related planning applications.
17, Tower Street
- WRENN ID
- deep-string-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ipswich
- Constituency
- Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- 17, Tower Street, IP1 3BE
- OS grid reference
- TM 163 447
- Coordinates
- 52.05874, 1.15464
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
17 Tower Street is a late 18th century red brick house featuring a parapet and a modillion cornice. It has a symmetrical facade and is set back from the street. The building is two storeys high with a five-window range arranged in a 1:3:1 pattern. The windows are double-hung sashes with glazing bars in the first storey, set in plain reveals with gauged brick flat arches. The central three-window section slightly projects forward and is topped by a modillion pediment. The entrance features a central four-panel door with a plain fanlight and panelled reveals, sheltered by a Doric porch that has fluted columns, a triglyph frieze, and a cornice. The roof is double span, with part tiled and part slate covering. This house, along with Nos 13 to 21 (odd), forms a group with the Ipswich Arts Theatre and the Church of St Mary-le-Tower.
Local climate
17, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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