The Ship Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1975. Public house.

The Ship Inn

WRENN ID
strange-spandrel-thrush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 February 1975
Type
Public house
Address
The Ship Inn, Cathay, BS1 6PA
OS grid reference
ST 591 722
Coordinates
51.4475, -2.58904
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Ship Inn is a public house dating from the 18th century, with a refronting from the mid-19th century. It features stucco over rubble walls, stone quoins, brick lateral stacks, and a triple Roman tiled roof that is hipped to the right. The building has a double-depth plan and is L-shaped at the rear on the right. It stands two storeys high and has a five-window range. The symmetrical front displays rusticated quoins, a cornice with large dentils, and a parapet. There is a central doorway flanked by flat-headed windows set in segmental-arched architraves with ears and shoulders; the central window above the doorway is blocked. The building has stacks on the gable and hip, with a 20th-century addition on the left. The elevation facing Ship Lane is roughcast and has scattered windows. The interior is a 20th-century public house design.

Local climate

The Ship Inn receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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