79, Northgate Street is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. House, shop.
79, Northgate Street
- WRENN ID
- errant-latch-ash
- 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
- House, shop
- Address
- 79, Northgate Street, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 854 649
- Coordinates
- 52.25158, 0.71594
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
79 Northgate Street is a house that has been converted into a shop, dating from around 1600. It features a timber-framed structure with roughcast rendering and a plain tiled roof. The building has two storeys and an attic, with part of it jettied and supported by small solid brackets. At the back, there is a one-and-a-half storey lean-to.
The northern half of the building has two upper sash windows, each with a single vertical glazing-bar in a flush cased frame. The ground floor includes a plate glass shop window, with the entrance door located to one side in a plain wood surround. The lower, unjettied southern half has one sash window on each storey, also with single vertical glazing-bars in a flush cased frame.
Inside, there is no cellar and no visible structure on the ground floor. The rear wall has been removed, leaving two main posts encased in tiled pillars. On the upper storey, these posts feature long jowled heads and previously had arched braces. The ceiling in the south end of the upper storey is very low and intersects with the line of the sash window. The roofs were not inspected.
Local climate
79, Northgate 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% 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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