The Somerset Arms is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1988. Inn. 2 related planning applications.

The Somerset Arms

WRENN ID
brooding-gutter-starling
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 January 1988
Type
Inn
Address
The Somerset Arms, High Street, Semington
OS grid reference
ST 898 607
Coordinates
51.3454, -2.14771
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Somerset Arms is an inn dating from the mid to late 18th century. It is constructed of Flemish bond brick and features a Welsh slate roof with coped verges and brick stacks. The building is two storeys high and has a five-window front. There are double half-glazed doors on the sides and a central canted bay with 12-pane sash windows, flanked by three-light cyma-mullioned casements. The two right-hand bays are a late 18th-century addition. A string course runs along the first floor, which contains three three-light and two two-light mullioned casements.

To the right, there is a former coach-house made of rubble stone, featuring three-light casements and a lower roofline with a half-hip to the right. At the rear, there are two gable wings on the right, one made of rubble stone and the other of English bond brick, both with two-light and three-light cyma-mullioned casements and a six-panelled door. There is also a lean-to extension on the left with a double Roman tiled roof. The interior has been altered but still retains chamfered beams and some 19th-century joinery.

Local climate

The Somerset Arms receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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