1, Westgate Street is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 October 1985. House.
1, Westgate Street
- WRENN ID
- peeling-mantel-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 October 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- 1, Westgate Street, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 856 637
- Coordinates
- 52.24065, 0.71772
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 1 Westgate Street is a house, now used as offices, that dates back to 1884. It was built as a model house by Lot Jackaman, who also constructed the Corn Exchange in Bury St Edmunds. The building features random knapped flint and sandstone with long-and-short quoins that include medallions. It has a slate roof adorned with fretted ridge-tiles and is designed in the High Victorian Gothic style.
The exterior consists of two storeys and attics, with a three-window range. Most windows have stilted stone hood-moulds with foliated and carved head-stops. The first-storey windows are cross windows with mullions and transoms, showcasing stop-chamfered stone arrises and moulded stone sills. The eastern ground-storey window is set in a square stone bay, featuring moulded chamfered stone corner columns and a rounded moulded parapet. The other two ground-storey windows are irregular in proportion, also with mullions and transoms. A seven-panelled door is set within a mullioned and transomed screen with glazing bars, topped by a hood-mould, splayed jambs, and a datestone in a shield above. A simple Doric cornice finishes the entrance.
The east gable, designed for visibility, includes a gable finial, a decorated window surround, an ornate keystone, and a name stone that reads "Jackaman; Builder, stone and marble mason." It also features balusters, consoles, terracotta ventilators, Ionic capitals, a cherub mask, and various stone surface treatments and textures. The west gable has fluted bargeboards, imitation half-timbering, and herringbone red brick infill. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
1, Westgate 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 85% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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