Sailor's Return Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 February 1981. Public house. 1 related planning application.
Sailor's Return Inn
- WRENN ID
- keen-moulding-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 February 1981
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Sailor's Return Inn, Chaldon Herring
- OS grid reference
- SY 789 835
- Coordinates
- 50.65084, -2.29868
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sailor's Return Inn is a public house, likely built in the 18th century. The building features walls that are part stone and part cob, which are colourwashed, and it has a thatched roof with a brick chimney stack. The layout consists of a simple two-room plan with a central passage and an additional room on the west side. There is a lean-to at the rear of the building. It is one storey high with attics. The entrance includes a part-glazed door set in a brick porch. On the ground floor, there are three casement windows with glazing bars, while the attic features four half-dormers with horizontally sliding sashes, also with glazing bars. To the east, there is a single-storey flat-roofed addition, and to the west, a lean-to extension with weather-boarded walls and a corrugated asbestos roof. Inside, the inn has a simple village alehouse style with matchboard partitions and a large fireplace in the east room that has been built up.
Local climate
Sailor's Return Inn receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 — 1 application
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