16 and 18, Tavern Street is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 1950. House. 2 related planning applications.
16 and 18, Tavern Street
- WRENN ID
- gilded-corridor-sepia
- 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
- House
- Address
- 16 and 18, Tavern Street, Stowmarket, IP14 1PH
- OS grid reference
- TM 047 587
- Coordinates
- 52.18859, 0.99391
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
16 and 18 Tavern Street are two houses that have been converted into a restaurant. They date from the mid-18th century and are constructed with a timber frame, which is plastered and colourwashed. The roof is made of plain tiles and the building has two storeys.
The left-hand bay, which was added in the late 18th century, has a door on the left side of the elevation that was blocked in 1991. This bay is lit by one late 19th-century 3/3 sash window on each floor. The main part of the building to the right features three irregular bays. It has a reeded doorcase with an 8/8 sash window on either side. There are also late 20th-century double doors at the extreme right of the elevation.
On the first floor, there are two 4/8 sash windows and one 3/6 sash window. The building has a gabled roof with an outshut at the rear and stacks on the rear roof slope. Inside, the structure retains a plain timber frame with plain bridging beams and a roof supported by staggered butt purlins.
Local climate
16 and 18, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- 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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