Britannia Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1950. Inn. 2 related planning applications.
Britannia Inn
- WRENN ID
- haunted-chimney-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1950
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Britannia Inn, Westbury, Sherborne, DT9 3EH
- OS grid reference
- ST 637 163
- Coordinates
- 50.9454, -2.51678
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Britannia Inn is a Grade II listed building located in Westbury. It consists of two blocks, with the left block originally serving as a school founded by William, Lord Digby in 1745 for poor girls. This block is two stories high with a five-window stone rubble front that has a slight convex curve and a stone slate roof. The windows are wood casements, with those on the ground floor featuring segmental heads. There is also a commemorative tablet on this block.
The right block is likely of a similar date but has had its ground floor openings altered and features a later tiled roof with two hipped dormers and a three-window front. There is a yard entry at the right-hand end of this block.
The Britannia Inn and the surrounding premises, including A and W Prout, Nos 4 and 6, Digby Estate Nos 256 and 257, Devonia House, Harley House, Penarth House, and Pinehaven, form a group with the Old Mitre on Lower Acreman Street.
Local climate
Britannia Inn receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 2 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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