Plough Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1977. Inn. 1 related planning application.

Plough Inn

WRENN ID
proud-lime-lake
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ipswich
Constituency
Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 December 1977
Type
Inn
Address
Plough Inn, Old Cattle Market
OS grid reference
TM 164 444
Coordinates
52.05585, 1.1551
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Plough Inn is a 17th-century timber-framed and plastered building that has been altered and added to in the 20th century. It stands two storeys tall with attics. The original section on the west front features a jettied upper storey with two oriel bay windows. The north front includes bay windows on the upper storey and an Ipswich style bay at the corner. The ground storey has a bar front, and the roof is tiled with a modillion eaves cornice.

Local climate

Plough 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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