6, Westgate Street is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1952. House.
6, Westgate Street
- WRENN ID
- pale-ashlar-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- 6, Westgate Street, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 855 637
- Coordinates
- 52.24065, 0.7169
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 6 Westgate Street is a house, which has been later divided into flats and is now used as offices. It was built around 1819, possibly by William Wilkins. The front is made of white brick, while the sides and rear are red brick, topped with a slate roof.
The building has three storeys and a basement, and it has developed in three stages. The main block features a three-window range of 12-pane sash windows with plain reveals and flat gauged arches on the first and second storeys. On the ground storey, there is a large segmental flat-roofed bay adorned with a triglyph frieze and cornice, which includes three 12-pane sash windows.
To the west of the main block is a slightly lower three-storey range that has two 12-pane sashes in plain reveals on the second storey and two similar windows on the first storey, one of which has been lowered. There is also a 16-pane sash window with a segmental-arched surround on the ground storey. A raised brick band runs between the first and second storey windows of this section, and a change in the brickwork indicates that the second storey was added later.
At the west end, there is a third lower section that remains three-storey, featuring a single blank window on the first and second storeys. The ground storey has a single-storey addition, built with matching materials and a hipped roof, projecting at the front.
The main range at the rear consists of three storeys with a basement and has a three-window range of 12-pane sashes with segmental heads in flush cased frames on the second storey, partly replaced by two-light casements on the first storey. The ground storey features a large flat-roofed canted three-light bay that projects above the basement. Various smaller extensions are present at the west end, mainly with 12-pane sash windows. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
6, 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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