119 and 121, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. A C17 House, shop. 5 related planning applications.
119 and 121, High Street
- WRENN ID
- leaning-buttress-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1986
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- 119 and 121, High Street, Needham Market, IP6 8DQ
- OS grid reference
- TM 087 551
- Coordinates
- 52.15546, 1.0499
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 119 and 121 High Street is a house and shop with a dwelling at the rear, likely dating from the 17th or 18th century, with two rear sections that are from the early 17th century or earlier. There have been alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building has two storeys and is constructed from timber framing with plaster. The front has a concrete pantiled roof, while the rear has a plain tiled roof. There are three internal chimneys made of red brick.
No. 121 features a 19th-century splayed flat-roofed shop window supported by console brackets and a four-panelled entrance door. No. 119 has a four-panelled door and a flanking bay shop window with large panes and 19th-century sash windows on the upper storey. At the rear of No. 121, there is a two-storey wing from the early 17th century or earlier. Behind No. 119, there is another two-storey wing from the late 16th or early 17th century, which was detached until the 19th century. The ground storey of this wing has painted brick walling, while the upper storey is timber-framed and plastered, with a long-wall jettied along the north side. It has a concrete pantiled roof and features an 18th-century moulded cornice on the upper storey. This wing was used for holding Petty Sessions during the 19th century. From at least 1720 and throughout the 19th century, Nos. 119 and 121 High Street were known as The George Inn.
Local climate
119 and 121, High Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 4 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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