18, Westgate Street is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. House.

18, Westgate Street

WRENN ID
dark-flagstone-coral
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
Address
18, Westgate Street, Bury St. Edmunds
OS grid reference
TL 853 637
Coordinates
52.24086, 0.71359
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 18 Westgate Street is a house dating from the mid-19th century. It is built of red brick and features a slate roof with ornamental ridge tiles and an ornate brick cornice. The house has two storeys, a cellar, and attics. It has a three-window range, with sashes that include margin glazing bars set in plain reveals. These windows are topped with segmental brick arches that have hood-moulds and ornamental cut and shaped soffits. A double-cabled string course in moulded red brick runs between the storeys. The central entrance features a six-panel door with a wooden doorcase that includes panelled reveals, pilasters, and a cornice. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

18, 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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