Sole Bay Inn is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1971. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
Sole Bay Inn
- WRENN ID
- silent-zinc-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1971
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Sole Bay Inn, 7, East Green, Southwold, IP18 6JN
- OS grid reference
- TM 509 762
- Coordinates
- 52.32719, 1.68101
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sole Bay Inn is a public house located in Southwold, dating from around 1835 with later alterations and a late 19th-century inn front. It is constructed of gault brick and features a pantile roof with two brick stacks.
The exterior presents a two-storey, three-bay front, with the outer corners defined by large stuccoed pilasters. The public house frontage on the right is framed by pilasters that support a fascia board and cornice. There is a half-glazed door with a three-pane fanlight to the right of a plate-glass window divided by two stiles. To the left, there is a four-panel door with a three-pane fanlight and one 0/0 horned sash window with a gauged skewback arch. On the first floor, there are two 6/6 unhorned sash windows under gauged skewback arches. Between these windows is an arched niche that contains a naval signal mast with a lantern. The building features a prominent moulded eaves cornice beneath a plain stuccoed parapet that masks the roof and is painted with the inn's name.
On the right side, there is a two-bay front with a blocked central doorway, a blocked window to the right, and one 0/0 horned sash window to the left. On the first floor, there are two 6/6 unhorned sash windows. The interior has been altered.
Local climate
Sole Bay Inn receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 — 2 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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