Boat Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Doncaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1981. A C17 Public house. 6 related planning applications.

Boat Inn

WRENN ID
ancient-bailey-jet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Doncaster
Constituency
Doncaster North MP: Ed Miliband (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 July 1981
Type
Public house
Address
Boat Inn, Sprotbrough and Cusworth, DN5 7NB
OS grid reference
SE 536 014
Coordinates
53.5066, -1.19228
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Boat Inn, originally known as Boat Farmhouse, is a 17th-century farmhouse that has been converted into a public house. It underwent alterations in the mid-19th century and was renovated in 1985. The building is constructed from rubble and ashlar limestone, featuring stone slate eaves courses beneath a pantile roof. It has an irregular L-shaped plan and is mostly two storeys high.

The facade includes five first-floor windows, with a wing projecting on the left and a one-bay addition to the right, along with a rear outshut. The large quoins add to its robust appearance. The central section is recessed and features a Tudor-arched door surround with a square-sectioned hoodmould. To the right of the door, there is a transomed two-light window with latticed casements, projecting sills, and a hoodmould. Above, two additional two-light windows are styled similarly.

The gabled bay to the right projects forward and has transomed three-light windows on both floors. A plaque displaying the Copley arms is located on the gable. The lower addition to the right, which is set back, includes a porch at the angle with a Tudor-arched doorway and hoodmould, along with a transomed three-light window to the right.

The front left wing has a projecting gable stack with offsets, and the right return is ashlar-faced with a square-headed doorway flanked by transomed two-light windows, and two more two-light windows on the first floor. The building features shaped kneelers and roll-moulded gable copings, with a brick shaft on the front-left gable stack, a ridge stack on the main range, and end stacks on both the main range and the addition to the right.

Local climate

Boat Inn receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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