Idle Valley Tap is a Grade II listed building in the Bassetlaw local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 1976. Public house. 5 related planning applications.
Idle Valley Tap
- WRENN ID
- open-landing-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bassetlaw
- Constituency
- Bassetlaw MP: Jo White (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 1976
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Idle Valley Tap, Carolgate, Retford, DN22 6BZ
- OS grid reference
- SK 705 808
- Coordinates
- 53.3198, -0.94173
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Idle Valley Tap is an early 19th-century building that stands two storeys tall. It has a rendered exterior and a Welsh slate roof featuring paired brackets at the eaves. The building has three windows in moulded cases on the upper floor, each with a stone cill. On the ground floor, there are two windows alongside a doorway that is flanked by plain pilasters and topped with a moulded cornice. The structure also has a plinth.
Local climate
Idle Valley Tap sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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