Coach and Horses Public House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1990. Public house. 3 related planning applications.
Coach and Horses Public House
- WRENN ID
- eastward-gable-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1990
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Coach and Horses Public House, Melton Road, IP12 1PD
- OS grid reference
- TM 280 502
- Coordinates
- 52.10359, 1.32888
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Coach and Horses Public House is a public house that dates back to the 17th century, with extensions made around the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. It features a roughcast timber frame with brick additions and has steeply pitched plain tile roofs with gabled ends. The building has brick axial and gable end stacks and a two-room plan with a lobby entrance in front of a central axial stack, which contains back-to-back fireplaces.
In the 18th century, a one-room plan addition was constructed at the left (north) end, followed by a long wing built behind it in the mid-19th century. A 20th-century wing is located at the rear of the right-hand end, along with single-storey entrances between the two rear wings. There is also a large bay at the right-hand (south) end, likely added in the 20th century. The building is one storey with an attic, while the rear wings are two storeys.
The front of the building is asymmetrical, with the left-hand 18th-century addition having slightly higher eaves and a 20th-century two-storey bay window. The original part on the right features a 20th-century bay window at the centre, a small casement on the left, and a large gable dormer above the eaves, along with a small gabled dormer on the right. All windows are 20th-century casements or shallow sashes. The right (south) gable end has a large single-storey 20th-century bay. At the rear, there is a two-storey 20th-century wing on the left and a long mid-19th-century wing on the right, which has a 20th-century flat roof and a one-storey extension between the two.
Inside, the right-hand room of the original part features a moulded wooden cornice, while the room to the left (now central) has a chamfered cross-beam with hollow stepped stops, stop-chamfered joists, and a large fireplace with a raised lintel and rebuilt jambs. The rear left wing contains a mid-19th-century chimneypiece and an axial beam. The first floor and roof space have not been inspected.
Local climate
Coach and Horses Public House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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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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