45 and 45a, St Nicholas Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1972. A C17 House, shop. 3 related planning applications.

45 and 45a, St Nicholas Street

WRENN ID
scattered-cobalt-dock
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Ipswich
Constituency
Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 August 1972
Type
House, shop
Address
45 and 45a, St Nicholas Street, IP1 1TW
OS grid reference
TM 162 443
Coordinates
52.05492, 1.15294
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 45 and 45A on St Nicholas Street is a 17th-century timber-framed and plastered house that now functions as a shop. It is part of a range that includes No. 1 on Silent Street and has undergone alterations in the 18th century and later. The building has two storeys and features a two-window range with double-hung sash windows that have glazing bars, all set in flush cased frames. The ground floor boasts fine early 20th-century shopfronts, and the roofs are tiled.

Inside, there are chamfered ceiling beams and a single room adorned with extensive 18th-century raised and fielded panelling. Additionally, there is a significant 15th-century brick undercroft with groined vaults. Nos. 19 to 47 (odd) form a group with Nos. 1 to 9 (odd) on Silent Street.

Local climate

45 and 45a, 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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