Buck's Head Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1955. Public house. 1 related planning application.
Buck's Head Inn
- WRENN ID
- buried-casement-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1955
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Buck's Head Inn, Norwich Road, Thwaite, IP23 7ED
- OS grid reference
- TM 116 681
- Coordinates
- 52.27087, 1.10089
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Buck's Head Inn is a public house dating from the 16th century, built in two phases, with an 18th to 19th century addition on the left that creates a single long structure. The building features a timber frame with plaster, including some old panelled plasterwork and chevron-pargetted infill. The left gable end is made of colourwashed brick, and the roof is covered with plaintiles. The inn is 1½ storeys high and has four windows: 18th to 19th century casements on the upper floor and small-paned ground floor casements from around 1900. There is one gabled dormer on the left and two mid-20th century gabled porches with plank doors. The internal stack has been rebuilt in the 20th century and features a cross-axial shaft, with a gable stack on the left.
Inside, the earliest phase, located on the right, consists of three and a half bays and showcases exposed first-floor studding with heavy reverse-curved braces. The addition on the left, possibly from the late 16th century, is divided into two unequal bays. Both phases have coupled-rafter roofs, although the collars are missing in the later section. Most of the ground floor timbers are concealed, but there is evidence of a service partition at the earlier end. The fireplace at the left gable end features a reused 16th-century moulded lintel. The roof over the later addition on the left was destroyed by fire in the 1980s.
Local climate
Buck's Head Inn sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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