The Black Horse is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. Public house. 1 related planning application.

The Black Horse

WRENN ID
quartered-pinnacle-river
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1967
Type
Public house
Address
The Black Horse, Lower Street, Stratford St. Mary, CO7 6JS
OS grid reference
TM 042 338
Coordinates
51.96559, 0.9722
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Black Horse is a public house, likely built in the early 17th century, with some alterations made in the 20th century. It features a timber-framed structure that is rendered, topped with a plain tile roof. The building has two storeys and three windows on the first floor. There are two 20th-century round-arched brick entrances that contain half-glazed doors, and the windows throughout are also 20th-century casements, with brick soldier arches on the ground floor and a band on the first floor. A decorative iron bracket supports a signboard. The roof is swept, with an end stack on the left and a ridge stack on the right. At the rear, there is an outshut under a catslide roof. Inside, there is a chamfered cross beam, and to the right, a longitudinal stop-chamfered beam with exposed joists that have hollow chamfers and run-out stops. The cambered end wall plate and part of the posts are visible, while the left side has reproduction beams and joists.

Local climate

The Black Horse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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