The Green Dragon Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1985. Public house. 1 related planning application.

The Green Dragon Public House

WRENN ID
fading-remnant-shade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 March 1985
Type
Public house
Address
The Green Dragon Public House, Alderbury, SP5 3AR
OS grid reference
SU 182 274
Coordinates
51.04606, -1.74131
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Green Dragon Public House is a 15th-century hall house that has been converted into a public house, with a cross wing added in the mid-16th century. The building features plastered timber-framing and a tiled roof with brick stacks. It consists of a four-bay hall house, which includes a two-bay unheated lower end and a two-bay open hall. The jettied cross wing, added to the right, also has two bays. The structure is two storeys high and has four windows.

To the left of the center, there is a beaded door case with a gabled pediment. The windows to the right include two 19th-century three-light mullioned and transomed casements, while to the left of the door is a 19th-century casement. The first floor of the main range has three casements set in timber-framing with tension braces, and the jettied first floor of the cross wing has one three-light casement. The right return of the cross wing features two-light and three-light casements. Additionally, there is a weather boarded outshut to the left and a tiled roofed outshut with a 19th-century extension at the rear.

Inside, the hall has an inserted floor and a mid-16th-century fireplace, along with finely moulded principal intersecting ceiling beams. The roof was recorded by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments; it is blackened over the former open hall and features an arch-braced design with post cappings, tension braces to the walls, and wind braces to the first tier of purlins. A notable Late Gothic carved stone fireplace from Ivychurch was removed from the hall and sent to America in the 1930s, but a print of this feature from 1806 hangs in the lounge bar of the pub. The inn is mentioned in Charles Dickens' novel Martin Chuzzlewit as The Blue Dragon.

Local climate

The Green Dragon Public House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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