County Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1977. Hotel. 1 related planning application.

County Hotel

WRENN ID
lone-gallery-amber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ipswich
Constituency
Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 December 1977
Type
Hotel
Address
County Hotel, 29, St Helen's Street, IP4 1HH
OS grid reference
TM 168 445
Coordinates
52.05705, 1.16179
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The County Hotel is an early 19th century brick house that has been painted, with a large hotel block added to the east side in the late 19th century. The building is two storeys tall. The original house features two shallow bays on the south front, each with one window, and a blocked window range in between. The roof is slate. The later hotel addition has two windows on the south front and three windows on the east front. Most of the windows are double-hung sashes with vertical glazing bars and arched panes in the upper sashes. On the south and east fronts, the upper storey windows are flanked by fluted Ionic pilasters. The ground storey includes three pedimented doorways on the east front and a Tuscan pedimented porch on the south front. Additionally, there is a corner entrance with a projecting pedimented hood. The east front features a parapet with a cornice, along with a pediment that has ball finials and an ornamented tympanum.

Local climate

County Hotel 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2017
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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