Unicorn Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1977. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
Unicorn Inn
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-cellar-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ipswich
- Constituency
- Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1977
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Unicorn Inn, 2, Orwell Place, IP4 1BB
- OS grid reference
- TM 166 443
- Coordinates
- 52.05538, 1.15839
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Unicorn Inn is an early to mid-19th century building made of grey gault brick, featuring a stuccoed ground floor and a quadrant corner on Foundation Street. It has three storeys and cellars, with a total of nine windows, including one on the quadrant corner and one on Foundation Street. The windows are double-hung sashes with glazing bars, set in plain reveals with stuccoed flat arches. A stucco band runs across the front at the level of the second storey window sills, and a raised band marks the top of the stuccoed ground floor, which includes semi-circular arched windows and doorways. The east end has a two-window range that slightly projects forward, while the quadrant corner is slightly recessed. Additionally, there is a two-storey extension at the east end with one window range. The roofs are covered with slate.
Local climate
Unicorn 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 lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 1997
- 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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