The Magpie Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 1950. Public house. 3 related planning applications.

The Magpie Inn

WRENN ID
muted-mullion-soot
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
Address
The Magpie Inn, 1, the Ford, Stowmarket, IP14 2AP
OS grid reference
TM 050 577
Coordinates
52.17988, 0.99756
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Magpie Inn is a public house dating from the early 17th century, with alterations made in the late 20th century. It features a roughcast and colourwashed timber-frame construction, topped with a roof of plain tiles, and machine tiles at the rear. The building stands two storeys high.

On the left side of the façade, there is a shallow full-height gabled bay, likely serving as a porch entrance. This bay includes a canted bay window on the ground floor and a 2-light casement window on the first floor. To the left of this bay, the elevation has two 20th-century doors and, further left, an early 19th-century sash window with 6/6 glazing bars. To the right of the gabled bay, there is a third door and two early 19th-century sash windows with 8/8 glazing bars. The first floor has two 3/3 sash windows to the left of the porch and three casements to the right, one of which is a 3-light window, while the others are 2-light. The gabled roof has internal gable-end stacks at both the north and south ends, with the southern stack being partly external.

Inside, the public house has a limited open-plan style. The front room to the north features wainscoting made of horizontal boards. The fireplaces are blocked, and the bridging beams are boxed.

Local climate

The Magpie Inn 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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