The Rampant Horse Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. Inn. 2 related planning applications.
The Rampant Horse Inn
- WRENN ID
- pale-chapel-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1986
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Rampant Horse Inn, Station Road, Needham Market, IP6 8AU
- OS grid reference
- TM 090 548
- Coordinates
- 52.15197, 1.05417
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rampant Horse Inn is an inn built in two stages during the mid-16th century, with a rear stable range added around 1600. The building has two storeys and features a timber-framed structure that is pebble-dashed. It has a plaintiled roof with axial and rear chimneys made of red brick. The windows are mostly 19th-century sash windows, many with small panes, while a pair of mid-19th century splayed bays facing Station Road have large-pane sashes. The entrance door, which dates from the 19th century, has six panels with the upper four being glazed, and is topped by a pentice on brackets. There is also an unused entrance door on Coddenham Road, which features a moulded architrave and cornice from the late 18th or early 19th century. Originally, the main frontage faced Coddenham Road.
To the left of the building is an early 16th-century two-cell structure that was formerly jettied towards the street; the hall features roll-moulded joists and main beams, while the service cell to the left has unmoulded exposed framing and a plain crownpost roof. To the right is a later 16th-century two-cell building, also previously jettied towards the street, which has a clasped-purlin roof. The rear stable range added around 1600 has exposed arch-braced studwork, with part of the roof renewed in the 19th century. This range is mainly weatherboarded, and its plaintiled roof has largely been replaced with corrugated iron.
Local climate
The Rampant Horse Inn sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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