The Packhorse Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. A Post-Medieval Inn.
The Packhorse Inn
- WRENN ID
- last-eave-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1960
- Type
- Inn
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- The Packhorse Inn, High Street, Corsham
- OS grid reference
- ST 872 705
- Coordinates
- 51.43397, -2.18474
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Packhorse Inn is an inn dating from the late 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th century. It is constructed of rubble stone and features a Bridgwater tile roof, with a stack at the south end wall and one at the rear. The building has two storeys and a three-window range. The upper floor has recessed ovolo-moulded mullion windows with hoodmoulds, consisting of two three-light windows and one two-light window. The ground floor includes a door framed by a raised bead-moulded surround with a pediment on consoles, flanked by a pair of 12-pane sash windows in raised bead-moulded surrounds.
At the rear, there is a parallel range with end stacks, also two storeys high. The right side is set back and features a later 18th-century upper three-light flush cyma-moulded window. The left side has a two-window range of earlier 18th-century recessed cyma-moulded two-light windows, with hoodmoulds above the upper windows and a continuous hoodmould over the lower windows. There is a two-storey outbuilding made of rubble stone with an upper door on the left. A lean-to connects the main range to a rear stable building; the left side is early 19th century with two upper 16-pane sash windows, while the right side is 18th century with ashlar piers supporting three lower garages and upper two-light and three-light flush cyma-moulded windows. There is a door on the left with outside steps leading up. Inside the inn, there is a small Tudor-arched moulded stone fireplace on the south side and an early 18th-century panelled window seat at one of the front windows.
Local climate
The Packhorse Inn receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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