Fine Fare Unicorn Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Rutland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1955. Inn, house, shop. 3 related planning applications.

Fine Fare Unicorn Inn

WRENN ID
graven-jade-foxglove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rutland
Constituency
Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 November 1955
Type
Inn, house, shop
Address
Fine Fare Unicorn Inn, 11, High Street East, Uppingham, LE15 9PY
OS grid reference
SP 866 996
Coordinates
52.58816, -0.7219
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Unicorn Inn and adjoining property, now a doctor's surgery and shop, dates to the 17th century, with a 18th-century front and a house likely built in the early 19th century. The building is constructed of stone, partly rendered and painted white, with a Welsh slate roof and stone ridge and east end stacks. It is three storeys high. The inn section has three windows and features quoins. A central throughway is defined by a moulded architrave and cornice. A 19th-century canted bay window and a door are set within a moulded architrave on the left side, while the right side incorporates a late 19th-century shop front. A moulded band runs between the ground and first floors. The first floor displays a carved panel depicting a unicorn and a sundial, flanked by 6/6 sash windows. The second floor has three 3/3 sash windows. The adjoining house section is two windows wide, with quoins. It has a late 19th-century shop front on the ground floor and full-length 9/6 sash windows in raised architraves with keystones on the first floor. The second floor mirrors the inn with three 3/3 sash windows in raised architraves. A rear wing of the inn, two storeys high and divided by a moulded string, incorporates two 4-centred arched doorways, now windows, with further windows to the right and left, one now a door. Above are two 3-light ovolo-moulded mullioned windows. A blocked 2-light cellar window is also present. Inside, the staircase features reused barley-sugar and turned balusters.

Local climate

Fine Fare Unicorn Inn sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 2008
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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