The Duke Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 November 1987. Inn. 7 related planning applications.
The Duke Inn
- WRENN ID
- stranded-roof-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 November 1987
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Duke Inn, Swindon Road, Hilmarton, SN11 8SD
- OS grid reference
- SU 019 753
- Coordinates
- 51.47692, -1.97385
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Duke Inn is an inn built around 1850-1860, constructed from squared rubble stone and featuring a slate eaves roof with decorative barge boards. The building is two storeys high and has a cross wing to the south, which is gabled on the east front. The main range has twin roofs with paired gables facing north. The windows are made of stone mullions and have hoodmoulds, with 20th-century leaded lights.
The cross wing includes a ridge stack and has a three-light window on the east front on each floor. The main range's east front is set back and features an ashlar projecting porch at the angle, with a small two-light window under the eaves above, a three-light window to the ground floor on the right, and a two-light window above, breaking the eaves under the barge boarded gable. The porch is made of ashlar and has diagonal buttresses, a Tudor-arched door with a hoodmould, and a Jacobean-style shaped gable that includes a portrait relief profile of the Duke of Wellington. The hoodmould extends around the north side under a parapet.
On the north side, there are two lancet windows and a buttress between them. Each of the north gables has a two-light window on the first floor, while the ground floor features a two-light window to the left, a three-light window off-centre, and a slate-roofed porch to the right with an ashlar Tudor-arched entry on the east side. A large stack is located in the roof valley. The south side of the cross wing has a gable to the left, a small dormer gable in the centre, and a side-wall stack to the right. There is also a slightly lower one-window section at the west end, which has a west stack and a south dormer gable.
Local climate
The Duke Inn receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- 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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