Number 2 and Bond's Fish Shop, (Including Attached Rear Range Now An Outbuilding of the Bull Inn) is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1955. Commercial. 3 related planning applications.
Number 2 and Bond's Fish Shop, (Including Attached Rear Range Now An Outbuilding of the Bull Inn)
- WRENN ID
- slow-clay-violet
- 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
- Commercial
- Address
- Number 2 and Bond's Fish Shop, (Including Attached Rear Range Now An Outbuilding of the Bull Inn), Bridge Street, Needham Market, IP6 8AG
- OS grid reference
- TM 088 551
- Coordinates
- 52.1551, 1.05113
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 2 and Bond's Fish Shop, which includes an attached rear range now serving as an outbuilding for The Bull Inn, is a house and fish shop dating from the early 16th century with 19th-century alterations. It was likely originally built as a two-cell house with an integral shop beyond a cross-passage, and it has a further original range at the rear. The building is two storeys high, constructed of timber framing and plaster, with the upper floor jettied towards the street. The upper facade features 20th-century cable-pattern pargetting in panels. Exposed elements include the ends of the joists and a chamfered bressumer, with a knee beneath the jetty on the left side that has a buttress shaft with a carved capital. The roof is covered with plain tiles and has an internal end chimney made of red brick.
The shop window, which is splayed, dates from the early 19th century, although it may also be from the 18th century. The building features large-pane sash windows from the mid-19th century and entrance doors with glazed panels from the 19th century, one of which includes an oblong fanlight. The rear wing, a three-bay structure from the 16th century, has been used for stabling with a loft above since the 19th century. This wing is also timber-framed and weatherboarded, with a plain tiled roof. The rear bay retains an original upper floor with massive joists, while the central two-bay room has a 19th-century upper floor and was likely open to its plain crownpost roof in the past. The roof suffered fire damage and was partly rebuilt in the 20th century.
Local climate
Number 2 and Bond's Fish Shop, (Including Attached Rear Range Now An Outbuilding of the Bull 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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