87 and 89, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1955. Shop. 1 related planning application.
87 and 89, High Street
- WRENN ID
- sombre-bonework-dock
- 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
- Shop
- Address
- 87 and 89, High Street, Needham Market
- OS grid reference
- TM 088 550
- Coordinates
- 52.15438, 1.05095
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
87 and 89 High Street is a shop and shop with a post office, along with dwellings above, built in 1772, as indicated on a tablet. The building has undergone alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of red brick, with the front elevation pebble-dashed in the 20th century. The roof is covered with plain tiles and features a sawtooth cornice of brick beneath the eaves. The building is two storeys high with five windows.
No. 87 has 20th-century casement windows on the first storey and a bay shop window. No. 89 retains two original casement windows on the first storey and has 19th-century windows, including a flat-roofed bay, below. Both shops have 20th-century glazed panelled doors. Between the two shops, there is a round-arched gateway that provides access from the street to the Quaker Meeting House located behind. This gateway features a pair of original gates, each with a single panel below and seven spear-headed bars above a middle rail, curving upwards towards the centre. At the rear of the passageway, the archway is constructed with gauged voussoirs and a limestone keystone that has the incised date of 1772. Additionally, there is a small 18th-century timber-framed and plastered wing behind No. 89. Inside No. 87, there is one of a pair of 15th-century oak doorways with a four-centred arched head, which has been removed from another house.
Local climate
87 and 89, 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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