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
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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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