Crown Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. Public house.
Crown Inn
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-iron-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Crown Inn, Church Street, Puncknowle
- OS grid reference
- SY 535 886
- Coordinates
- 50.69581, -2.65944
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Crown Inn is a public house located on Church Street in Puncknowle, dating from the 18th century. It features rubble-stone walls and a thatched roof with gable ends. There are brick stacks positioned to the left and right of the center, as well as at the right-hand gable. The building is two storeys high and has wooden casement windows with two and three lights, some of which include glazing bars, with one window featuring marginal glazing bars at the center. The wooden cills and lintels are characteristic of the period.
The doors include a plank door with thin muntins to the left of center, dating from the 20th century, and a plank door with glass lights to the right of center, also from the 20th century. The left end of the premises is set back and constructed with the same materials, featuring a brick stack at the left-hand party wall. This section is 1½ storeys tall and has two wooden casement windows with glazing bars and concrete lintels, along with a plank door with one light on the right side, which dates from the 19th century.
Local climate
Crown Inn receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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