20 and 22, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1983. House.
20 and 22, High Street
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-step-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- 20 and 22, High Street, Ixworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 931 703
- Coordinates
- 52.29717, 0.83157
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 20 and 22 High Street is a 16th-century house that was divided into two dwellings in the early 19th century. The building has two storeys and attics, featuring a timber frame that is roughcast and plastered in panels, with a jettied design along the street frontage. It has a plaintiled roof and an internal chimney stack with attached shafts set in a diamond pattern. The front has three windows, which are three-light casements with early 19th-century ornamental leaded panes. On the left side, there is a shop window with bull's-eye glass along the top. The entrance features two identical six-panel doors with raised fielded panels and plain rectangular frames. At the rear, there is a two-storey extension. Inside No. 22, there are notable features including moulded joists and a carved fireplace lintel.
Local climate
20 and 22, High Street 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2014
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