Volunteer Inn is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1973. Pub. 3 related planning applications.

Volunteer Inn

WRENN ID
lesser-foundation-aspen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Devon
Constituency
Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 November 1973
Type
Pub
Address
Volunteer Inn, Temple Street, Sidmouth, EX10 9BQ
OS grid reference
SY 126 882
Coordinates
50.68721, -3.23739
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Volunteer Inn is a building located on Temple Street, dating from around 1840 with later additions. It is two storeys high and has a stucco facade. The building features a plinth and a moulded string that runs across the heads of the first-floor windows. The gable end has a slate roof with a later cross-gabled section at the north end, where the eaves rise up to a flat leaded section at the gable. Below the gable, there is a two-storey canted stucco bay with three lights on each floor and an incised pattern on the apron.

On the first floor, there are four windows, one of which is blind, and the others are two-light casements. The ground floor has three windows, excluding the ground floor of the gabled bay. Two of these are canted bays that sit under a common lean-to slate roof, which extends over the main entrance as a cornice-hood supported by shaped brackets.

The Volunteer Inn, along with Nos 42 to 50 (even), forms a group of buildings of architectural interest.

Local climate

Volunteer Inn receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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