Tavern House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 December 1986. Former inn, house.

Tavern House

WRENN ID
hallowed-spindle-solstice
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 December 1986
Type
Former inn, house
Address
Tavern House, Sherston
OS grid reference
ST 848 888
Coordinates
51.59802, -2.21954
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Tavern House is a former inn that has been converted into a house. It dates from the late 17th century and features alterations and additions from the 18th and 19th centuries, along with a restoration in the 20th century. The building is constructed of coursed rubble with squared dressed stone on the rear staircase tower, and it has some wooden lintels. The roofs are gabled and covered with stone slate, featuring end stone stacks.

The structure is a long range of four elements set parallel to the road. On the left is the original 17th-century core cottage, followed by the main block from the 18th century, a link section from the early 19th century, and a late 19th-century cottage on the right. The central 18th-century block has two storeys and an attic, with two windows, including attic windows located under the gables. The windows are two-light small leaded pane casements.

There is a central gabled porch with a pointed-headed entrance and a plank door, topped with a ball finial at the apex of the porch gable, which is echoed in all other gables of the range. The link section features a mock medieval embattled parapet along the eaves lines.

Local climate

Tavern House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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