4 and 6, Ipswich Street is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1972. Shop. 4 related planning applications.
4 and 6, Ipswich Street
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-brass-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1972
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 4 and 6, Ipswich Street, Stowmarket, IP14 1AQ
- OS grid reference
- TM 048 585
- Coordinates
- 52.18735, 0.99575
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
4 and 6 Ipswich Street is a shop located in Stowmarket, featuring a rear wing from the early 17th century and a front wing added in the early 18th century. The building is timber-framed, plastered, and colourwashed, with a front roof made of asbestos slate. The two-storey facade has two 20th-century shopfronts and two late 18th-century 8/8 sash windows on the first floor. These sashes have exposed boxes and alternate with raised plaster panels. The eaves cornice includes paired mutules, and the roof is gabled. Inside, the rear wing has an upper cruck construction roof from the early 17th century, while the front range features jowled principal studs and chamfered bridging beams.
Local climate
4 and 6, Ipswich 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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