16, St Nicholas Street is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1951. House.

16, St Nicholas Street

WRENN ID
forgotten-spire-starling
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ipswich
Constituency
Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 December 1951
Type
House
OS grid reference
TM 162 443
Coordinates
52.05561, 1.15239
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 16 on St Nicholas Street is a small timber-framed and plastered building dating from the 16th to 17th century. It features two projecting gables of different heights, with the southern gable now forming part of No 18. The building has two window openings with casements. On the ground floor, there is a small 20th-century shop and a passageway that leads to a small courtyard at the rear, which originally opened onto the east front of the Unitarian chapel. The roofs are tiled. Nos 10 to 24 (even) are a group of similar small timber-framed and plastered houses from the 16th to 17th century, some of which have been altered in the 18th century and later.

Local climate

16, St Nicholas 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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  1. 18 and 20, St Nicholas Street Grade II 5 m
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  5. 10 and 12, St Nicholas Street Grade II 24 m
  6. 19 and 21, St Nicholas Street Grade II 26 m
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  8. 23, St Nicholas Street Grade II 38 m
  9. 25, St Nicholas Street Grade II 41 m
  10. 4, St Nicholas Street Grade II 42 m