The Retreat is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1988. House, public house.
The Retreat
- WRENN ID
- nether-step-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1988
- Type
- House, public house
- Address
- The Retreat, Chickering Road, Hoxne
- OS grid reference
- TM 188 760
- Coordinates
- 52.3389, 1.21128
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Retreat is a house that was formerly the Royal Oak public house, likely built in the 17th century. It features a timber frame with plaster and applied timbers on the facade and the right gable end, topped with a thatched roof. The building has two storeys and three windows, with various casements; the ground floor windows are quite large, containing either 12 or 16 panes. There is a small upper window with old diamond-leaded glass. The entrance has a lobby entry with a plastered lean-to porch and a slated roof, leading to a mid-20th century boarded and battened door. Inside, there is an internal stack with a small 19th-century shaft. To the left, there is a 20th-century lean-to garage. The interior has not been examined.
Local climate
The Retreat 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% 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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