The Rushbrooke Arms Public House is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1984. Public house.

The Rushbrooke Arms Public House

WRENN ID
noble-quoin-elm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 January 1984
Type
Public house
Address
The Rushbrooke Arms Public House, Bury Road, Great Whelnetham
OS grid reference
TL 877 606
Coordinates
52.2124, 0.74718
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Rushbrooke Arms Public House is a building with a mid-16th century core that has undergone several alterations over the years. It stands at one and a half storeys with attics and features a timber-framed structure that is rendered, with 20th-century pargetting in panels. The roof is thatched and includes thatched gabled casement dormers. A 17th-century axial chimney made of red brick displays a saw-tooth pattern on its flues.

The building has 20th-century small-pane three-light casements and glazed panelled entrance doors. The original 16th-century core consists of two phases; the jettied west gable-end, which is now exposed in the later public bar, features arch-braced close-studding and a simple crownpost roof. The second phase includes a coupled rafter roof. Back-to-back open fireplaces were inserted in the 17th century.

In the 18th century, a timber-framed cell was added to the east end, and in the early 19th century, a public bar was added to the west end, which has flint walling that is now rendered, along with 20th-century small-pane cross-windows. The building was known as "The Waggoner" in the 19th century.

Local climate

The Rushbrooke Arms 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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