Store to Ipswich Museum and Art Gallery is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1977. Museum.

Store to Ipswich Museum and Art Gallery

WRENN ID
winter-corner-sienna
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ipswich
Constituency
Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 December 1977
Type
Museum
Address
Store to Ipswich Museum and Art Gallery, St George's Street, IP1 3LH
OS grid reference
TM 160 449
Coordinates
52.06043, 1.15034
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a store for the Ipswich Museum and Art Gallery, originally a chapel, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of red brick and has two storeys with a five-window range featuring casement windows with glazing bars. The first-storey windows have semi-circular heads, while the ground-storey windows have segmental arches. There is a modern central doorway, and the roof is hipped and covered with pantiles.

Local climate

Store to Ipswich Museum and Art Gallery 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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