The Old Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1979. Cottage, former public house.

The Old Inn

WRENN ID
dim-groin-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Melton
Constituency
Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 August 1979
Type
Cottage, former public house
Address
The Old Inn, 16, Main Street, Ab Kettleby
OS grid reference
SK 735 236
Coordinates
52.80495, -0.91001
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Inn is a cottage that was formerly a public house, dating from the 18th century but with older origins. It has been altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of coursed ironstone rubble and features a 20th-century pantile roof with brick end stacks. It has a two-unit plan and is two stories high with a one-window range. A 20th-century part-glazed plank door is located to the left of the center within a 20th-century gabled timber porch. There is a 20th-century two-light casement window on the ground floor to the left, which has a segmental-arched brick head, and to the right, there are three-light casements on both the ground and first floors; the ground floor window has a cemented segmental-arched brick head, while the first-floor window has a wooden lintel. A brick lean-to extension is present on the left, along with a single-storey 20th-century extension on the right.

Inside, the property features chamfered spine beams, old quarry tile floors, and a brick-vaulted cellar located at the semi-basement level to the rear of the room on the ground floor left. The earliest title deed dates back to 1660, where the property is already referred to as an inn. It remained a public house until recently, known as the King William IV. The building is included for its group value.

Local climate

The Old 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 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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