2, 4 and 5, Westgate Street is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. Residential.

2, 4 and 5, Westgate Street

WRENN ID
deep-quoin-martin
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
Residential
Address
2, 4 and 5, Westgate Street, Bury St. Edmunds
OS grid reference
TL 856 637
Coordinates
52.24065, 0.71751
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 2, 4, and 5 Westgate Street is a terrace of three houses, originally four, built in the early 19th century. The houses are constructed of white brick and feature slate roofs with a wide plain eaves soffit. There are three internal chimney stacks with tall rectangular shafts and slightly corbelled caps.

The terrace is two storeys high and has cellars, with a five-window range. The windows on the upper floor are 12-pane sashes set in plain reveals, topped with flat gauged arches and supported by projecting stone sills. On the ground floor, No. 4 has a small paned rounded bay window, while the other houses feature deeper 12-pane sashes. The doorways have semicircular arched brick surrounds with plain reveals; the former doorway to No. 3 is now blank as it has been combined with No. 2. The remaining doorways have six-panel doors with fanlights that include radiating glazing bars.

Inside, No. 2, which incorporates No. 3, is reported to have no original features exposed. No. 5 retains one original fireplace, which has reeded quarter-round pilasters and an architrave, along with a 19th-century cast-iron grate.

Local climate

2, 4 and 5, 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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