58, Whiting Street is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1952. A Medieval House.
58, Whiting Street
- WRENN ID
- vacant-corner-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1952
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- 58, Whiting Street, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 853 638
- Coordinates
- 52.24168, 0.71315
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
58 Whiting Street is a house dating from the early 16th century, with later extensions at the rear. It features a timber-framed and rendered structure topped with a plain tiled roof. The building has two storeys, an attic, and a cellar. The exterior includes one window on each storey: the first storey has a two-light small-paned casement window with a flush surround, while the ground storey has a larger but similar window. A gabled dormer with plain barge-boards contains a two-light casement window with a single bar to the lights. An end chimney is linked to the stack of the adjoining house, No. 59.
Inside, the cellar has been converted into a room but retains its original ceiling, featuring a large chamfered main beam and substantial joists set on edge. The frame consists of two bays, with a small section of studding exposed along the former rear wall. The fireplace on the ground storey has jambs made of re-used Abbey stone, with Norman nook shafts and cushion capitals topped by a plain timber lintel. On the upper storey, there is a long transverse beam in the inserted ceiling. The roof, structured in three bays with a chimney bay, has collars that are partly cut back for headroom, and all other components are covered.
Local climate
58, 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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