The Three Magpies Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1987. Inn.
The Three Magpies Inn
- WRENN ID
- western-oriel-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1987
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Three Magpies Inn, Seend
- OS grid reference
- ST 950 620
- Coordinates
- 51.35742, -2.07251
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Three Magpies Inn is an inn built around 1810, with an extension added in 1937. It is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof, with end stacks and a ridge stack at the original south end. The north gable is coped, and the south gable is half-hipped. The building has two storeys and was originally a three-window range, which has been extended in a matching style to five windows.
Architectural details include flush quoins, paired 12-pane sash windows in flush surrounds, a raised plinth, a band, and a coved eaves cornice. The original part of the inn has double doors set in a reeded ashlar surround with a pediment on brackets and an arched-headed blank panel above, featuring raised imposts and a key. There are paired sashes on each side of the entrance. The extension to the left has a matching doorcase with paired sashes above, similar sashes on the first floor to the left, and a ground floor projecting square bay with three sashes.
To the right of the original range is a stable that has been converted, featuring a plain tile roof and a coped north gable. This stable has a 20-pane sash window to the left and a stable door to the right, flanked by small casements and topped with a roundel, all in ashlar flush surrounds. The north-east angle has flush quoins. The inn was known as the New Inn until 1938.
Local climate
The Three Magpies Inn receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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