The Duke's Head Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 1950. Public house. 7 related planning applications.
The Duke's Head Inn
- WRENN ID
- outer-grate-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 July 1950
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Duke's Head Inn, Ipswich Street, Stowmarket, IP14 1BB
- OS grid reference
- TM 050 584
- Coordinates
- 52.1859, 0.99845
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Duke's Head Inn is a public house dating from the late 18th century. It features a roughcast and colourwashed timber frame set on a brick plinth, topped with a plain tile roof. The building has two storeys and a three-window front. The west front includes three 8/8 sash windows, with an early 20th-century half-glazed door situated between the right-hand pair. The first floor has three 4/4 sash windows of 18th-century origin and an additional 2/2 sash window above the door. The roof is gabled, with an external stack on the north gable end and a ridge stack located south of the center. The south gable has a 20th-century semi-circular one-storey extension beneath a pyramid roof. Inside, the ridge stack remains intact, and the boxed bridging beams have been cut off and are supported on steel piers, indicating the position of removed walls on the ground floor.
Local climate
The Duke's Head Inn sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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