5, Tavern Street is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1972. A 17th century House, dental surgery. 3 related planning applications.

5, Tavern Street

WRENN ID
ragged-latch-swift
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 April 1972
Type
House, dental surgery
Period
17th century
Address
5, Tavern Street, Stowmarket, IP14 1PJ
OS grid reference
TM 047 586
Coordinates
52.18826, 0.99451
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 5 Tavern Street is a house that has been converted into a dental surgery. It dates back to the early 17th century and features a timber frame with roughcast on the ground floor and plaster on the first floor. The building has a slate roof and stands two storeys tall, with a two-window range on the first floor. The central entrance has a six-panelled door, with the upper two panels being glazed. To the left, there is a 2/2 sash window, and to the right, there is an early 20th-century single-storey bay with cross casements. A moulded timber string course runs between the floors, and there are two 2/2 sash windows on the first floor. The eaves cornice features repeating pendant arches, and the gabled roof has a stack on the front slope to the west.

Inside, the building has been somewhat altered with inserted partitions. In the rear ground-floor room, there is a wave-moulded bridging beam over a blocked fireplace, while the front rooms have chamfered bridging beams.

Local climate

5, 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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