Sailors Rest is a Grade I listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1951. A Late C17-early C18 House.
Sailors Rest
- WRENN ID
- graven-tower-dock
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Ipswich
- Constituency
- Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Sailors Rest, 2, St Peter's Street, IP1 1XB
- OS grid reference
- TM 162 442
- Coordinates
- 52.05446, 1.15291
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sailors Rest is a notable late 17th to early 18th century red brick house located at No 2, St Peter's Street. The building features stucco quoins, a plinth, and an impressive carved wood cornice with modillions at the eaves. It stands two storeys tall with attics and has a seven-window range. The windows are double-hung sashes with glazing bars, set in flush cased frames, and are topped with flat rubbed brick arches and stucco projecting keystones. The central section of the house, which includes the doorway and one window above, slightly projects forward and is flanked by narrow windows. The central window has a shaped soffit, while the first storey windows are adorned with brick aprons. A stucco band separates the two storeys. The entrance features a central six-panel door, with the upper panels glazed, accessed by stone steps. This door is framed by a wood doorcase with fluted and cabled columns on pedestals and topped with a pediment. The roof is tiled.
Local climate
Sailors Rest 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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