Ye Olde Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1989. Inn.
Ye Olde Inn
- WRENN ID
- stranded-jamb-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1989
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Ye Olde Inn, Roborough
- OS grid reference
- SS 575 171
- Coordinates
- 50.93577, -4.02805
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ye Olde Inn is a house that has been converted into an inn, dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It was enlarged in the mid 19th century and underwent alterations in the late 19th century or early 20th century. The building features a rendered cob exterior with a thatched roof made of wheat straw, along with brick and rendered end stacks. There is a rendered addition, likely built over stone rubble, topped with a gable-ended Welsh-slate roof. At the rear, there is an outshut with a lean-to Welsh-slate roof.
The original layout consists of a two-room central-entrance plan with integral end stacks, facing south. The mid 19th-century addition on the right side includes a one-room plan, while the rear outshut and a circa 1900 bay window and porch were added later. Internal partitions from the circa 1700 section were removed, likely in the 20th century, but there may have been a central stair rising from an entrance lobby.
The inn is two storeys tall, with a one-storey outshut. The exterior has a roughly symmetrical two-window front. The first floor features 19th-century two-light wooden casements, while the ground floor has a three-light wooden casement on the right. To the left, there is a square bay window with a small-paned sash window and a hipped slate roof, which projects to the right to form a porch supported by a wooden bracket. The central entrance has a pair of glazed doors from around 1900. The right-hand addition has one mid 19th-century horned glazing bar sash window on each floor, with a 12-pane window on the first floor and a tripartite window on the ground floor. The right-hand gable end features a 6-paned horned sash window on each floor, both with stone cills. There are also end windows that may have been inserted around 1900, as indicated by the different glazing pattern and deeper cills.
Inside, the former right-hand ground-floor room of the circa 1700 section has a roll-moulded cross beam and ogee-moulded joists, along with a circa 1900 brick-arched fireplace. The former right-hand ground-floor room also has 20th-century ceiling joists.
Local climate
Ye Olde 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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