The Jolly Sailor Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1951. Public house.

The Jolly Sailor Inn

WRENN ID
mired-crypt-bramble
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 March 1951
Type
Public house
Address
The Jolly Sailor Inn, Princes Square, Looe
OS grid reference
SX 253 532
Coordinates
50.35288, -4.45683
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Jolly Sailor Inn is a house that has been converted into a public house, dating from the 16th or 17th century. It features a render finish on rubble walls and a dry slate roof adorned with five original crested clay ridge tiles. The taller roof over the later wing on the left includes a 17th-century ridge tile depicting a horse and rider. The building has rendered rubble stacks, with an external front lateral stack and an end stack on the right.

The plan consists of three rooms and a through-passage, with later additions for hall and parlour window bays. The inn is two storeys high and has a three-window range, with first-floor windows situated under raking dormers mostly above the eaves line. The 20th-century windows include two-light casements on the left and centre of the first floor, a wider three-light casement in the hall, and transomed casements on the left and right. There is a doorway immediately to the left of the lateral stack, featuring a door with an old slate hood, and a quadrant oven projection to the right of the stack. The rear of the building has a blocked passage doorway and three small window openings, showing some evidence of previous alterations.

To the left, there is a later three-storey wing with a two-window range that includes mid-19th-century four-pane hornless sash windows. Inside, the original chamfered oak ceiling joists extend to the window bays, and there is a hall fireplace positioned at an angle to the room, along with some reused ships' timbers for later support.

Local climate

The Jolly Sailor Inn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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