42-48, Westgate Street is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1996. Terraced house.

42-48, Westgate Street

WRENN ID
forbidden-pedestal-grove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 March 1996
Type
Terraced house
Address
42-48, Westgate Street, Bury St. Edmunds
OS grid reference
TL 853 637
Coordinates
52.24106, 0.71319
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 42-48 on Westgate Street in Bury St Edmunds is a terrace of seven houses dating from the early 19th century. The buildings are constructed of white brick with a slate roof and feature four internal chimney-stacks with large rectangular shafts and corbelled caps.

The terrace is two storeys high and includes cellars, with a total of eight window openings. All windows are 12-paned sashes set in plain reveals, topped with flat gauged arches and projecting stone sills. Between each pair of upper windows, there are two blank window openings, with No. 46 featuring a painted false window. The entrance doors, which are original six-panel doors for Nos. 45, 47, and 48, are arranged in pairs beneath the blank windows, framed by semicircular brick arched surrounds with plain reveals and blank fanlights. Additionally, there is a recessed cast-iron foot-scraper located between each pair of entrances. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

42-48, 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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