The Acorn Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1951. Public house.

The Acorn Inn

WRENN ID
patient-wall-tarn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 December 1951
Type
Public house
Address
The Acorn Inn, Fore Street, Evershot
OS grid reference
ST 573 045
Coordinates
50.83859, -2.60752
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Acorn Inn is a detached public house located on Fore Street in Evershot. It dates from the early to mid-19th century and has undergone some 20th-century alterations, particularly to the windows and stacks. The building features coursed dressed stone walls and slate roofs with boxed eaves and gable ends, along with parallel ridges. At each gable end, there are early 20th-century rebuilt brick stacks.

The inn is two storeys high and has three windows on the upper floor, with the center window being a projecting square bay supported by two iron columns above the front doorway. This bay contains a tripartite sash window at the front and a sash window on each of the return sides, with recessed panel pilasters at the corners. The first-floor windows on either side of the bay are three-light iron casements with lead lights from the 19th century. The ground floor features two-light wood casements with transoms from the 20th century, and the front door, located at the center, has six flush panels and dates from the 19th century. To the left of the main structure, there is a short lower range with two low storeys, also covered by a slate roof.

Local climate

The Acorn 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 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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