37 and 38, Westgate Street is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. House and shop.
37 and 38, Westgate Street
- WRENN ID
- tall-pinnacle-ivy
- 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 and shop
- Address
- 37 and 38, Westgate Street, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 852 637
- Coordinates
- 52.24104, 0.71227
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
37 and 38 Westgate Street is a house and shop built in the mid-19th century. It features painted brickwork, a slate roof, and wide eaves soffits. The building is situated on a corner site with a quadrant corner and is part of a group that includes Nos. 50 and 51 Guildhall Street.
The exterior consists of two storeys and cellars, with a four-window range. The windows are sashes without glazing bars, set in plain reveals with flat arches and keystones. No. 37 has a central entrance featuring a six-panel door and a rectangular fanlight, framed by a doorcase with pilasters and a flat cornice hood. No. 38 has a double shop front with eight-pane windows divided by a transom and a central half-glazed shop door.
Notably, embedded in the south wall of No. 37 are a pair of 14th-century timber doorways with steeply arched heads, which are remnants of a former timber-framed building that was located at the corner of Westgate and St Andrew's Street South. There may be a continuation of the original house concealed within the current structure. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
37 and 38, 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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