Tawney Owl Restaurant is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1988. Restaurant.
Tawney Owl Restaurant
- WRENN ID
- veiled-sill-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1988
- Type
- Restaurant
- Address
- Tawney Owl Restaurant, High Street, Debenham
- OS grid reference
- TM 174 630
- Coordinates
- 52.22286, 1.18264
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tawny Owl Restaurant is a house and restaurant dating from the 16th century. It features a timber-framed structure with roughcast rendering and a glazed black pantiled roof. The building has a three-cell layout and stands two storeys high. On the upper floor, there are three 2-light cross-paned casement windows. The ground floor includes a canted bay with a central 6-paned sash window on the left, a late 19th-century 8-paned shop window in the center, and a 20-paned sash window on the right. The lobby entrance has a 6-panel door, with the upper two panels being glazed. The stack has a 19th-century axial shaft. Inside, the hall and service end feature chamfered axial bridging beams, with concealed joists. The service partition has square-headed doorways, one of which is incomplete. The upper floor has not been examined.
Local climate
Tawney Owl Restaurant sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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