Ram's Head Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Inn. 1 related planning application.

Ram's Head Inn

WRENN ID
odd-chimney-curlew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 March 1988
Type
Inn
Address
Ram's Head Inn, South Street, Dolton, EX19 8QS
OS grid reference
SS 571 121
Coordinates
50.89074, -4.03303
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Ram's Head Inn is an inn that likely underwent remodelling and extension in the early 19th century, originally being a 17th-century building. It features plastered cob and rubble walls and has a gable-ended roof covered with asbestos slate. The structure includes four brick stacks, with two axial stacks and one at each gable end.

The inn is two storeys high and has a long, asymmetrical front with eight windows. There are shallow two-storey porches on either side of the centre, with a 20th-century blockwood door on the left and an early 19th-century six-panel door on the right. Above these porches are small-paned 19th-century two-light casements. To the left, there is a 20th-century three-light casement on each floor, and in the centre, a four-light casement on the ground floor is accompanied by a large late 20th-century small-pane casement to its left. On the upper floor, there are three early 19th-century sash windows, while the right-hand side features a late 19th-century eight-pane sash window below the rightmost sash. The right end of the front projects and includes an early and late 19th-century twelve-pane sash window on the first floor, with a 20th-century plank door below and a single-light casement to its right. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Ram's Head Inn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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