56, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1955. House. 1 related planning application.
56, High Street
- WRENN ID
- graven-entrance-wren
- 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
- House
- Address
- 56, High Street, Needham Market, IP6 8AP
- OS grid reference
- TM 088 550
- Coordinates
- 52.15397, 1.05199
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house dating from the mid to late 16th century, built in two stages. It is two storeys high, with a timber-framed and plastered exterior. The roof is covered in plain tiles and features a 19th-century chimney made of gault brick. The windows are mostly 19th-century sash and casement windows with small panes of glass. A 20th-century panelled entrance door is fitted, incorporating a moulded pediment and pilasters. The house was likely constructed as a 16th-century extension to the earlier parlour cell of numbers 52 and 54 High Street. The rear wing displays good tension-braced close-studding on its south side. The older section features a jetty projecting from the south wall, supported by a moulded bressumer. The roof has a wind-braced clasped-purlin construction.
Local climate
56, High 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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