Dove Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1977. Public house. 3 related planning applications.

Dove Inn

WRENN ID
slow-steeple-plum
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ipswich
Constituency
Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 December 1977
Type
Public house
Address
Dove Inn, 76, St Helen's Street, IP4 2LA
OS grid reference
TM 170 445
Coordinates
52.0564, 1.16403
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Dove Inn is a timber-framed and plastered building featuring 18th and 19th century external elements. It has older wings that extend to the south at the rear. The front is finished in roughcast with stucco corner pilasters. The building stands two storeys high with attics and has a three-window range of double-hung sashes with glazing bars. The ground floor includes a 19th century or early 20th century bar front and a corner entrance. A central doorway is adorned with fluted pilasters and a cornice. The roofs are tiled and there are two gabled dormers.

Local climate

Dove 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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