The White Horse Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. A C18 Inn. 5 related planning applications.
The White Horse Inn
- WRENN ID
- peeling-terrace-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1980
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The White Horse Inn, the Street, Hitcham, IP7 7NQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 982 512
- Coordinates
- 52.12414, 0.89404
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White Horse Inn is a timber-framed building that has been refronted in red brick, reflecting an 18th-century style. It likely has medieval origins and features a cross wing at the west end that is now integrated with the main block. The roof is tiled and includes a ridge chimney stack. The main block has two storeys, while there are one-storey additions on both the east and west ends.
The façade has three windows that are double-hung sashes with glazing bars and shaped brick aprons. The upper storey windows are adorned with wood cornices, while the ground storey windows feature moulded brick cornices. There are two doorways, each topped with pedimented hoods supported by double-scroll brackets, leading to five-panel doors.
Inside, the building showcases exposed timber-framing, ceiling beams, and joists. Notably, there is a well-crafted moulded beam on the ground storey and 17th-century panelling on the upper storey.
Local climate
The White Horse 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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