St Mary Le Tower Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1994. Vicarage. 3 related planning applications.

St Mary Le Tower Vicarage

WRENN ID
waning-loft-woodpecker
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ipswich
Constituency
Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 August 1994
Type
Vicarage
Address
St Mary Le Tower Vicarage, 8, Fonnereau Road, IP1 3JP
OS grid reference
TM 163 450
Coordinates
52.0614, 1.15406
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Mary le Tower Vicarage, formerly known as No.8 Algerine Cottage, is a vicarage built as a private house around 1850-1860. It is constructed of red brick laid in English bond with white brick dressings and has slate roofs. The building is 2-3 storeys high and features a square 3-storey tower at the south-west angle, which has rusticated brick quoins and developed window architraves. The ground floor has a 6/6 unhorned sash window, the first floor has a 4/2 unhorned sash under an arched head, and the top floor has a 2/2 unhorned sash. The tower is topped with a hipped roof.

The west front includes a doorway situated between the tower and a 2-storey block to the north. This block has a 2-window range featuring two 4/4 horned sashes on the ground floor and two arched sashes on the first floor, also beneath a hipped roof. The south front boasts a full-height bay window fitted with 1/1 sashes. The garden front to the south-east consists of a hipped block with a one-window bay and a canted bay window to its right, featuring 3/3 and 2/2 unhorned sashes respectively. To the north-east, there is a 2-storey brick extension.

Inside, the staircase has two turned balusters per tread, a ramped handrail, and simple turned newels. The timber chimneypiece in the ground-floor south room has an eared surround and a mantel supported by four consoles, with a similar chimneypiece in the room above. The internal doors feature four fielded panels. This building is part of a group of fine houses along Fonnereau Road.

Local climate

St Mary Le Tower Vicarage 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 2008
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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