54 and 55, Whiting Street is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. House.
54 and 55, Whiting Street
- WRENN ID
- veiled-floor-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- 54 and 55, Whiting Street, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 853 638
- Coordinates
- 52.24125, 0.71325
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
54 and 55 Whiting Street is a house from the 18th century that has been divided into two separate residences. It features a timber-framed structure with a rendered exterior and a plain tiled roof that has a wide eaves overhang and a plain wood soffit. The building has two gable end chimney stacks with tall, plain red brick shafts.
The house is two storeys tall with attics and has a two-window range. The upper storey has two-light small-paned casement windows with segmental-arched surrounds, separated by a blank panel of a similar shape. The ground storey features 12-pane sash windows with segmental-arched surrounds in flush cased frames. There are also two flat-headed dormers with small-paned casement windows. The central doors are paired and recessed, framed in plain wood reveals and architraves, topped with a shallow hood supported by small brackets.
At the rear, there is a single-storey lean-to that has been partly raised, and the rear wall of the house is made of red brick. Inside No. 55, there are no exposed timbers, and both storeys have boxed-in main beams. The attic is large, and there is a winder stair located in the rear corner.
Local climate
54 and 55, Whiting 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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