Ostrich Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1955. Public house.

Ostrich Inn

WRENN ID
dim-banister-shade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 February 1955
Type
Public house
Address
Ostrich Inn, Bourn Hill, Wherstead
OS grid reference
TM 161 418
Coordinates
52.03312, 1.15014
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Ostrich Inn is a public house dating from the 16th to 17th century, comprising several builds with later additions and alterations. It features a timber-framed structure that is rendered, standing on a brick plinth, with a brick casing on the right gable end and rear. The building has brick stacks and extensions, topped with plain tile roofs, forming a T-shaped range with extensions at the rear. It is two storeys high and includes a cellar. The entrance is off-centre in a slightly recessed bay, featuring a 19th-century door. On the first floor, there are four 20th-century casement windows. The right gable end has a ridge and an external stack, while the left gable end features a prominent canted bay with casement windows and bargeboards. At the rear, there is a gabled cross wing that is largely hidden by later additions.

Inside, the room to the left contains a spine beam that is partly ovolo moulded and partly chamfered with stops, along with tenoned-in joists. There is a beam with a bar stop, and the first-floor sections of framing are visible, including jowled posts, one chamfered tie beam, and wall plates. The roof is inaccessible, but the left side has a barrel vaulted ceiling.

Local climate

Ostrich 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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