15 and 17, Lowgate Street is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1998. Houses.
15 and 17, Lowgate Street
- WRENN ID
- burning-tracery-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1998
- Type
- Houses
- Address
- 15 and 17, Lowgate Street, Eye
- OS grid reference
- TM 145 736
- Coordinates
- 52.3191, 1.14723
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
15 and 17 Lowgate Street are a pair of houses built around 1820. They are made of rendered and colourwashed clay lump and feature a roof covered with black-glazed pantiles. The houses are two storeys high and have a two-window range. On the ground floor, there are two 20th-century plank doors, which are separated by two 3-light casement windows. The first floor has two 2-light casement windows. The houses have a gabled roof with a central ridge stack. There is a late 19th-century two-storey extension that abuts the south gable and has a single-window range. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
15 and 17, Lowgate Street sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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