Commerce House (Wt Ward) is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1961. House.
Commerce House (Wt Ward)
- WRENN ID
- shifting-sandstone-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- Commerce House (Wt Ward), Well Lane, Clare
- OS grid reference
- TL 769 452
- Coordinates
- 52.07738, 0.58113
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Commerce House, located on the south side of Well Lane in Clare, is a 17th century timber-framed and plastered house featuring three gables at the rear. The building has undergone significant alterations in the 19th century and was renovated in the 20th century. It stands two storeys tall and has a three-window range with double-hung sashes that include glazing bars, all set in cased frames; two of the windows are three-light. The ground storey showcases a 19th-century shopfront complete with pilasters and a cornice, along with a small 20th-century shop window. The roof is tiled. Commerce House is part of a group of listed buildings that includes Nos 1 to 8 Well Lane, No 31 Church Street, all the listed buildings in Market Hill, Nos 1 to 8 Malting Lane, Stone Hall, and Nos 36 to 40 Nethergate Street, as well as all the listed buildings in Station Road.
Local climate
Commerce House (Wt Ward) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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