Dun Cow Inn is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1951. Public house. 4 related planning applications.
Dun Cow Inn
- WRENN ID
- night-keystone-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1951
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Dun Cow Inn, Ipswich Road, Swainsthorpe, NR14 8PU
- OS grid reference
- TG 220 007
- Coordinates
- 52.5591, 1.27508
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dun Cow Inn is a public house dating from the early 18th century. It is constructed of brick, primarily in English bond, and features a plain tiled roof. The building is two stories high with a dormer attic and consists of four bays. There is a 20th-century door located to the right of the center. On the ground floor, there are three 19th-century two-light cross casements set under segmental arches. A platband runs along the first floor and continues into the returns. The first floor has four similar cross casements. The gabled roof is adorned with three sloping dormers fitted with casements. There is a ridge stack positioned to the right of the center and internal stacks at the southern gable end. The gable heads were originally shaped, but the north gable is now straight, while the south gable retains a shaped head only on the rear slope. The interior has been altered in the 1950s and later.
Local climate
Dun Cow Inn 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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