2 Market Place and 1 Tavern Street is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 1950. Public house, office.

2 Market Place and 1 Tavern Street

WRENN ID
third-screen-autumn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 July 1950
Type
Public house, office
Address
2 Market Place and 1 Tavern Street, Stowmarket
OS grid reference
TM 048 586
Coordinates
52.1882, 0.99511
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

2 Market Place and 1 Tavern Street is a public house, formerly known as the Greyhound Inn, that was converted to offices in 1982. The building likely dates from the late 17th century and features a plastered and colorwashed timber-frame under a plain tile roof. It stands two stories high on a corner site, with part of the facade facing Market Place and part facing Tavern Street.

At the corner, there is a late 20th-century glazed door set into a recess, flanked by panelled double-leaf outer doors. The Market Place front has a central six-panelled door in a simple doorcase with a hood above. On either side of this door, there is one early 19th-century sash window with 8/8 glazing bars. The first floor has two identical sash windows directly above.

On the Tavern Street side, there are two six-over-six sash windows on each floor, except for the lower left window, which has 8/8 glazing bars. There is a third window to the extreme right at ground level. The building has a gabled roof with two stacks on the rear slope and features two gabled ranges at the back. The fenestration consists of 20th-century casements, some of which are top-hung.

Local climate

2 Market Place and 1 Tavern Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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