The Elephant and Castle Public House is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. Public house.

The Elephant and Castle Public House

WRENN ID
lapsed-panel-martin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 July 1972
Type
Public house
Address
The Elephant and Castle Public House, 2, Hospital Road, Bury St. Edmunds
OS grid reference
TL 852 637
Coordinates
52.24102, 0.71129
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Elephant and Castle Public House is an early 19th-century public house located on Hospital Road in Bury St Edmunds. The building features a white brick front and a rendered east side, topped with a slate roof.

It is two storeys high and has a three-window range. The first storey has 12-pane sash windows, while the ground storey has sashes with a single vertical bar, all set in flush cased frames with flat gauged arches. The entrance is a central Edwardian half-glazed door, which is accessed by three steps and is recessed within a semicircular stuccoed double-arched doorway that includes panelled pilasters and a fanlight with radiating glazing bars. There is also a rear wing that is positioned at right angles to the main structure. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

The Elephant and Castle Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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