54 and 56, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1983. House.
54 and 56, High Street
- WRENN ID
- sunken-ember-starling
- 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
- 54 and 56, High Street, Ixworth, St Edmundsbury, IP31 2HJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 932 705
- Coordinates
- 52.29879, 0.83318
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 54 and 56 High Street is a timber-framed and plastered house dating from the early 17th century. It has one and a half storeys and a three-cell plan, topped with a thatched roof and featuring an internal chimney stack. The front includes a central canted bay window with small panes, flanked by two three-light casements that have hood-moulds. There are two plank doors with applied strip decoration in a 19th-century Gothic style, accessed via short flights of steps. The building also has two dormer windows with two-light casements, showcasing remains of square leading and ornate trefoil heads. The structure is divided into two cottages.
Local climate
54 and 56, 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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