The Dun Cow Public House is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1983. Public house.

The Dun Cow Public House

WRENN ID
proud-foundation-myrtle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 December 1983
Type
Public house
Address
The Dun Cow Public House, Up Street, Bardwell
OS grid reference
TL 943 738
Coordinates
52.32838, 0.85012
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Dun Cow Public House is a public house and dwelling with an early to mid-16th century core and later extensions. It has two storeys and a basic L-shaped plan, though the overall shape is now more complex. The original range is timber-framed and plastered, featuring an internal chimney stack and a plaintiled roof, with exposed ceiling beams inside. An early 19th-century extension on the south side is constructed of flint and red brick, primarily plastered on the exterior, with a roof made of black plaintiles and alternating bands of fishscale tiles. A mid-19th-century wing on the east side is built of red brick and has a roof of single Roman tiles. There are lean-to timber-framed and plastered extensions on the north side. The front elevation has mainly small-paned sash windows, with those in the 19th-century wing set in deep reveals, while the others have flush frames. At the north end, three small-paned sashes are arranged in a rectangular bay topped with a slate roof.

Local climate

The Dun Cow 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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