Co-Operative Education Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1972. A C18 Education centre. 1 related planning application.
Co-Operative Education Centre
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ipswich
- Constituency
- Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1972
- Type
- Education centre
- Address
- Co-Operative Education Centre, 11, Fore Street, IP4 1JW
- OS grid reference
- TM 167 443
- Coordinates
- 52.05513, 1.15979
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Co-operative Education Centre is an 18th-century red brick house located at 1260 Fore Street, set back from the street. It features a parapet and a moulded brick modillion cornice. The building is two storeys high and has a five-window range with double-hung sashes that include single vertical glazing bars, all set in plain reveals. The central entrance has a glazed 20th-century door framed by a wood doorcase, which includes a semi-circular fanlight, half round columns, and an open pediment. Additionally, a small 19th-century entrance porch has been added to the south end of the building. The roof is tiled.
Local climate
Co-Operative Education Centre 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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