68, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1983. House and shop.
68, High Street
- WRENN ID
- under-lead-furze
- 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 and shop
- Address
- 68, High Street, Ixworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 933 705
- Coordinates
- 52.29934, 0.83373
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 68 on High Street is a house and shop dating from the 16th century, with an early 19th-century front. The building has two storeys and is constructed with a timber frame and roughcast, topped with a black glazed pantiled roof. The double shop front features small-paned, slightly bowed windows, with a central door accessed by a short flight of steps. To the right, there is a small-paned sash window in a cased frame and a second door leading up steps. The upper floor has casement windows, and the interior reveals exposed beams.
Local climate
68, 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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