131, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1955. Office. 4 related planning applications.
131, High Street
- WRENN ID
- upper-facade-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1955
- Type
- Office
- Address
- 131, High Street, Needham Market, IP6 8DL
- OS grid reference
- TM 086 552
- Coordinates
- 52.15605, 1.04899
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 131 on High Street is a Grade II listed building that was part of the District Council offices. It was built in the late 18th century as a house for S.A. Maw, a Quaker and banker. The building is constructed of red brick and features a hipped roof covered with concrete plain tiles. A wooden moulded and dentilled cornice masks the gutter, and there are external chimneys made of red brick.
The structure stands three storeys high and has five windows. The windows are sash style with flat arches made of orange gauged brick; some are original small-pane sashes, while others were renewed in the 19th century with larger panes. To the left of the entrance, there is a flat-roofed, one-storey bay from the 19th century that also has sash windows.
The original entrance is notable, approached by stone steps with wrought iron railings. It features a six-panelled door, with the lower panels fielded, set deeply within ogee-arched panelled reveals. Above the door is a fanlight with intersecting tracery. The entrance is further enhanced by a portico supported by Roman Doric columns and pilasters, featuring a broken entablature, triangular pediment, and a modillioned cornice.
Local climate
131, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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