The Digby Tap Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1971. Inn. 3 related planning applications.
The Digby Tap Inn
- WRENN ID
- veiled-corner-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1971
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Digby Tap Inn, Cook's Lane, Sherborne, DT9 3NS
- OS grid reference
- ST 638 163
- Coordinates
- 50.94529, -2.51616
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Digby Tap Inn is a stone rubble building dating from the mid 16th century to the 17th century, with later alterations. The south end has been demolished and rebuilt in brick. The front is cement-rendered and features early 19th century sash windows and a doorway with a moulded architrave, angle roundels, and a pediment. The entrance has a six-panelled door, with the upper four panels being moulded. At the south end of the front, there is a three-light stone-mullioned window with remnants of a hood mould. Inside, there is a moulded beam. The rear wings are lower; the west wing is made of stone rubble with a plain tile roof. From right to left, there is a three-light sash window above, a horizontally sliding sash window below, and to the left, a fixed window with small panes. The east rear wing is again lower and has a stone slate roof. At the right end, there are double ledged doors with voussoirs; to the left, there is a fixed two-light segmental headed window, followed by a ledged door and a three-pane wide fixed window. The building was marked as the parish workhouse on a plan from 1802.
Local climate
The Digby Tap 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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