16 Lower Brook Street is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1951. House. 2 related planning applications.
16 Lower Brook Street
- WRENN ID
- tall-brass-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ipswich
- Constituency
- Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- 16 Lower Brook Street, IP4 1AP
- OS grid reference
- TM 164 443
- Coordinates
- 52.05496, 1.15578
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
16 Lower Brook Street is a 17th-century timber-framed and plastered house. It has a jettied upper storey and a moulded bressumer. The house is two storeys high, with attics and cellars. It has a four-window front, featuring 18th-century double-hung sash windows with glazing bars, set within flush cased frames. A central four-panel door is topped with a shallow fanlight and framed by a moulded wooden architrave. The roof is tiled, with two gabled dormers and a modillion wood eaves cornice. The building forms a group with numbers 6 to 18 (even) and 18A, along with numbers 7, 9 and 15.
Local climate
16 Lower Brook 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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