White Horse Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1990. A C15 Public house.

White Horse Inn

WRENN ID
errant-hammer-birch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 October 1990
Type
Public house
Address
White Horse Inn, the Old Street, Capel St. Mary
OS grid reference
TM 098 381
Coordinates
52.00242, 1.05568
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The White Horse Inn is a public house that dates back to the 15th century or earlier, with later alterations and additions from the 18th and 19th centuries. It features a timber-framed and plastered structure with red plain tiled roofs. The building has a large red brick chimney stack on the left side and another large chimney stack, off-centre to the left, at the rear of the ridge of the central range.

The inn is two storeys high, with a central hall range that has a roof of two levels, sharing a chimney stack between them. There are crosswings on the right and left, with an additional 18th or 19th-century range to the left that has a hipped roof. The gables display 19th-century barge boards, brackets, and batten decoration. The first floor has three, two, and one windows, while the ground floor has two, one, and one windows, all of which are 19th-century vertically sliding sash windows with horns. The centre window on the ground floor is an angled bay with a hipped roof. There are modern doors on the left and right, each with top lights.

Inside, notable features include a heavy storey post at the rear of the central hall and a fine inserted early 16th-century ceiling, with moulded and carved beams and wall plates adorned with foliage and carved stops. The crosswings have heavy stop-chamfered bridging joists, and one arched brace remains visible on the tie beams, while sawn-off braces can also be seen. The hall roof has been raised towards the road, with most of the rear covered, except for the base of a heavy rafter supported by the moulded storey post. There is an 18th or 19th-century fireplace with a reeded surround, patera, and a cast iron grate. A large, blocked chimney stack retains a fragment of a moulded mantel beam.

Local climate

White Horse Inn sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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