Chichester Arms Public House is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 December 1973. Public house.
Chichester Arms Public House
- WRENN ID
- high-plinth-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 December 1973
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Chichester Arms Public House, 28, Pilton Street, Barnstaple, EX31 1PJ
- OS grid reference
- SS 556 340
- Coordinates
- 51.08712, -4.06213
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chichester Arms Public House, formerly known as No.28 Chichester Arms Inn, is located at No.28 Pilton Street in Barnstaple. This public house dates from the late 17th century or earlier, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is rendered and features a slate roof with gabled ends, while the stacks are not visible from the front.
The structure has two storeys and presents an asymmetrical four-window range. Notable architectural details include an eaves band with an anthemion frieze in relief and an eaves cornice supported by moulded brackets. The ground floor features a panelled door to the left of centre, topped by a flat porch hood with a cornice. To the left of the door is a canted bay window with high transomed casements, and to the right are two windows, each with two-light high transomed casements. The first floor has four 2-pane sash windows without horns.
The interior was only inspected on the ground floor, where the front right room has some walls removed, revealing an ovolo-moulded late 17th-century fireplace and a chamfered cross beam with step stops. Other interesting features may exist elsewhere in the building. Historical records indicate that this was a fully licensed house as early as 1837.
Local climate
Chichester Arms Public House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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