Bugs Bar is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1955. A C16 House, restaurant. 2 related planning applications.
Bugs Bar
- WRENN ID
- long-pinnacle-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1955
- Type
- House, restaurant
- Address
- Bugs Bar, 95 and 97, High Street, Needham Market, IP6 8DQ
- OS grid reference
- TM 087 551
- Coordinates
- 52.1547, 1.05055
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bugs Bar is a house and restaurant with accommodation above, built as a single three-cell house in the early to mid 16th century. The building has two storeys and attics, featuring a timber-framed structure that is pebble-dashed. It has a plaintiled roof with axial chimneys made of red brick and flat-roofed 19th-century dormers with small-pane casements.
On the first storey, there are 19th-century sash windows with large panes. The ground storey of No. 95 has an 18th or early 19th-century mullioned and transomed window, while Bugs Bar features a pair of flat-roofed splayed bays with similar windows. The entrance doors are 19th-century and consist of six panels. To the far left, there is a carriage entrance beyond the original service cell, which has a pair of 18th or 19th-century boarded gates.
Inside Bugs Bar, the timber-framing from the early 16th century is fully exposed, showcasing heavy unchamfered floor joists and an altered open fireplace from the 17th or 18th century that incorporates a 16th-century cambered and ogee-moulded lintel. Originally, the upper floor jutted out towards the street, but in the 18th or 19th century, the lower wall framing was moved forward to create a flush wall-line, although evidence of the original window and door positions remains.
Local climate
Bugs Bar 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 — 2 transactions since 1999
- 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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