The Boot Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1987. Public house. 3 related planning applications.
The Boot Inn
- WRENN ID
- solemn-latch-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1987
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Boot Inn, Freston Hill, IP9 1AB
- OS grid reference
- TM 173 395
- Coordinates
- 52.0121, 1.16631
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Boot Inn is a public house that likely has a core dating from the 17th century, with alterations and extensions made in the 18th and 19th centuries, and a 20th-century extension on the right. The building features a timber-framed core that is cased in Flemish bond brick, with additional brick extensions that are whitewashed. The original part of the building has a roof covered with glazed pantiles, while the extension has plain tiles.
It is a single-storey structure with an attic. The original range has a slight central projection that includes a 20th-century door and a 16-pane sash window set under segmental arches. To the left, there is another 16-pane sash window under a cambered arch, and to the right, there is a blocked entrance and another 16-pane sash window under segmental arches. The 19th-century extension features a door and a 4-pane sash window. The building has dentilled eaves throughout and three flat dormer windows with casements in the original range, along with a single flat dormer with a 4-pane sash in the extension. The early part of the building has a swept roof, an external stack on the right, and an additional stack rising through the roof at the rear, with an end stack on the extension.
The interior has been extensively altered, but the early part retains one wall post, a studded partition with down braces, and a chamfered spine beam with tenoned-in joists.
Local climate
The Boot Inn sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 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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