The Mitre Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. Inn. 2 related planning applications.
The Mitre Inn
- WRENN ID
- moated-marble-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1973
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Mitre Inn, High Street, Shaftesbury, SP7 8JE
- OS grid reference
- ST 863 229
- Coordinates
- 51.00582, -2.19656
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Mitre Inn is a building dating from 1615, located on the south side of High Street. It has an 18th-century core and features a modern front made of stone rubble in a vernacular style. The inn is two storeys tall and has three windows. There is a stringcourse above the ground floor and a parapet with rolled coping. The modern casement windows are complemented by transomed and mullioned windows on the ground floor, which have dripstones above them. At the right end, there is a 4-centred doorway, while the central doorway is wider and square-headed, featuring a flat stone hood supported by shaped brackets, with a carved crest of a mitre above it. At the back, there is a 19th-century wing that is three storeys high and has four windows facing south-west. This wing has a hipped slate roof with red tile ridges and some sash windows with intact glazing bars. The Mitre Inn, along with the Town Hall, Church of St Peter, and Nos 25 to 31 (odd), forms a group.
Local climate
The Mitre Inn receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- 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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