The Benett Arms is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1987. Inn. 1 related planning application.

The Benett Arms

WRENN ID
proud-bailey-sienna
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 July 1987
Type
Inn
Address
The Benett Arms, Sedgehill and Semley, SP7 9AS
OS grid reference
ST 891 269
Coordinates
51.04202, -2.1566
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Benett Arms is a 17th-century inn that was altered in the 19th century. It is constructed from painted dressed limestone and features a tiled roof with gable end brick stacks. The building has a T-plan layout and is two storeys high with an attic, containing three windows. The central entrance has a 20th-century porch and door, flanked by two-light casements with round-arched lights and hoodmoulds. On the first floor, there are three 2-light leaded casements with similar round-arched lights and hoodmoulds. A central half dormer features a single arched casement, and the roof has deep eaves. To the left, there is a single-storey extension with a 2-light round-arched casement, while to the right, there is a 20th-century single-storey extension. At the rear, a two-storey wing has casements. Inside, there is an open fireplace with a timber lintel set on brick jambs.

Local climate

The Benett Arms 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 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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