72, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 October 1985. House.
72, High Street
- WRENN ID
- watchful-threshold-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 October 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- 72, High Street, Haverhill
- OS grid reference
- TL 674 452
- Coordinates
- 52.07994, 0.44175
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 72 High Street is a house dating from the early 17th century, with a mid-17th century rear wing. It has a late 19th-century brick casing and some 20th-century alterations. The building is timber-framed but is now encased in red brick, featuring plain tile roofs. The left gable has a brick stack, while an additional stack is located on the right gable, set off-center from the ridge.
The exterior is two stories high with a two-window front, and a lower two-story wing at the rear. The central entrance features a six-panelled door, with the two central panels being glazed, set within a simple doorcase that has a hood supported by scrolled consoles. To the left of the door is a 6/6 unhorned sash window beneath a concrete lintel, and to the right is a 20th-century canted bay window. On the first floor, there are two 3/3 unhorned sash windows.
At the rear, the wing has new windows and doorways. Inside, the front part of the house displays exposed timber framing with thin scantling and chamfered tongue-stopped bridging beams. There is a brick cellar with redundant 19th-century external stairs. On the first floor of the rear wing, nine panels of early 17th-century small-framed panelling and an arcaded frieze are preserved, along with two early 18th-century two-panel doors on HL-hinges.
Local climate
72, 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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