93, High Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1955. A Early Modern House. 3 related planning applications.

93, High Street

WRENN ID
leaning-postern-ash
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
Period
Early Modern
Address
93, High Street, Needham Market, IP6 8DQ
OS grid reference
TM 087 550
Coordinates
52.15463, 1.05063
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 93 High Street is a house built around 1600, with early 18th century remodelling. It features gault brick construction, with red brick dressings, block quoins, and a band at the first floor, all encasing a timber-framed core. The roof is plaintiled with slating at the eaves, and there are 19th century flat-roofed dormers with sash windows. An internal end chimney is made of red brick. The house has two storeys and attics, with five windows that are sashes featuring flat arches of gauged brick, flush frames, and small-pane sashes from the late 18th or early 19th century. The window above the entrance is a dummy, adorned with ogee carving on the soffit of its flat arch.

The entrance is a prominent early 18th century doorway, featuring a heavily moulded broken pediment that once held a bust. Above sunk pilasters are fretted console brackets, and the doorway has a bolection-moulded architrave with a door that has six fielded panels. The oblong fanlight includes bullseye glass.

Inside, there is a fine well staircase from around 1700 in a rear wing, featuring moulded handrails and balusters that are partly of barley sugar form. A parlour has full early 18th century panelling with large sunk panels and a deep moulded cornice. Other rooms contain good contemporary panelled doors and fireplaces. A small rear wing has ovolo-moulded beams from around 1600, and another wing contains fragmentary late medieval framing. This house served as the Vicarage for the nearby parish of Battisford during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Local climate

93, 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2009
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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