The Nutshell 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 Nutshell Public House

WRENN ID
vast-obsidian-merlin
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 Nutshell Public House, 17, the Traverse, Bury St. Edmunds
OS grid reference
TL 852 642
Coordinates
52.24482, 0.71273
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Nutshell Public House is a mid-19th century public house located in Bury St Edmunds. It features a timber-framed and rendered structure with a slate roof and a wide plain eaves cornice. The building has three storeys and a cellar, with two windows on each storey facing The Traverse and one window on each storey of the return front to the south. All windows are sashes in flush cased frames, with 12 panes on the first storey and 9 panes on the second storey. The corner of the building is rounded, and the ground storey has a mullioned shop front that wraps around both sides, supported by pilasters and a frieze, topped with a cornice and ornate cast-iron cresting. Inside, there is a single room on each storey, and there is no evidence of an earlier core. This establishment is claimed to be the smallest public house in England.

Local climate

The Nutshell 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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