Carriers Arms is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1987. Public house. 1 related planning application.

Carriers Arms

WRENN ID
keen-zinc-scarlet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 May 1987
Type
Public house
Address
Carriers Arms, Gaston End, East Bergholt, CO7 6SU
OS grid reference
TM 073 353
Coordinates
51.97777, 1.01805
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Carriers Arms is a public house that likely dates back to the early 15th century, with various later alterations and additions. It features a timber-framed structure that is rendered, with a roof covered in plain tiles and red brick stacks. The building is single-storey with an attic and has undergone a conversion from its original open hall to an off-centre lobby-entry plan. This entrance is marked by a plain doorcase that now contains a cross window, while the current entrance is through a low brick addition on the left side. The windows are mainly 20th-century cross casements, and there is a canted bay to the left. The central bay projects slightly and is topped with a gabled dormer. The roof has a swept gableted design, featuring a large ridge stack and an additional external stack on the left end. There is a low extension with a pent roof on the right side, and a late 18th to 19th-century range has been incorporated at the rear left under a mansard roof, along with a 20th-century extension to the rear.

Inside, the building showcases 16th-century moulded beams, with the framing exposed at the attic level. It has jowled chamfered posts, and the central bay displays a long arch brace to a cambered tie beam, along with the base of a square, chamfered crown post. The front wall of the central bay features a wall plate with diamond mortices and a shutter groove from a former hall window. The crown post roof has not been fully inspected, but visible posts are unmoulded and have braces to the purlin and collars, some of which are missing.

Local climate

Carriers Arms 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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