Sorrell Horse Inn is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1988. Public house. 1 related planning application.
Sorrell Horse Inn
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-clay-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1988
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Sorrell Horse Inn, Hollesley Road, Shottisham, IP12 3HD
- OS grid reference
- TM 320 446
- Coordinates
- 52.05164, 1.38302
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sorrell Horse Inn is a public house located on Hollesley Road in Shottisham. It dates back to the 16th or 17th century, with 19th and 20th-century additions. The building features a timber frame with rendered infill and has a thatched roof, along with areas covered in slates and pantiles. It stands two storeys high.
The front of the building has a central section that is the original part, flanked by 19th-century additions on either side and a 20th-century extension at the rear. The entrance front consists of three bays, with a doorway positioned to the right of the center, featuring a plank door. To the right of the doorway is a three-light casement window, and to the left are two similar windows, all dating from the 19th century. The first floor features three swept dormer windows with semi-circular tympana above the two-light casements. The thatched roof is half-hipped on the right side and gabled on the left, with a ridge chimney stack located to the left of center, which has two pots.
To the right of the central section is a single-storey addition made of colour-washed brick, which includes one three-light window to the left of center and two chimney stacks. The left-hand addition is two storeys high, featuring a plank door on the right, a three-light window on the ground floor to the left, and a two-light window on the first floor in the center. There is a chimney stack on the left-hand gable end. At the rear, there is a 20th-century single-storey extension on the right, with all windows in this section being from the 20th century.
Inside, the building has chamfered and encased ceiling beams.
Local climate
Sorrell Horse Inn sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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