Bradworthy Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1989. Inn. 2 related planning applications.
Bradworthy Inn
- WRENN ID
- white-quartz-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1989
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Bradworthy Inn, Village Centre, EX22 7TD
- OS grid reference
- SS 324 139
- Coordinates
- 50.90087, -4.38451
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bradworthy Inn is an 18th-century cottage with a single-story addition to the east gable in the 19th century. It adjoins an early 19th-century hotel, both buildings having undergone alterations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including the addition of quoins and lintels, and refenestration. The hotel is rendered with a slate roof, hipped to the right return, boxed eaves, and a brick stack with a dentil cornice to the cap to the right of a carriageway opening. The cottage is of rendered rubble with a thatched roof, a rebuilt brick stack between the first and second bays to the right, and a gabled slate roof with decorative ridge tiles to the porch. The building is in an L-shape, with the main elevation of the hotel facing west onto the village square, and the right return (south) incorporating the front of the cottage facing a pathway to the nearby Church of St John the Baptist.
The hotel is two storeys with 3 bays across the front and 3 bays on the return, totaling 6 windows. All windows are 6-pane sash windows with horns, and have lintels with keystones and quoins. The entrance is in the second bay from the left; it is now disused and has a rectangular light with a plank door. To the right is a segmental carriageway entrance with double doors, and in the second bay to the right is a flat-roofed porch with quoins, entered via a door with 6 lights from the left return. The right return of the hotel has two windows to the first floor and one to the ground floor. The cottage has two storeys and five bays with late 20th-century casement windows, except for a small fixed light window reinforced with L-shaped brackets to the right of the single-story gabled porch.
The inn’s interior includes matchboard panelling to the entrance corridor and a stair hall with a tall stairlight window featuring late 19th-century coloured glass on the north wall. A stick stair has a mahogany handrail that sweeps around a cast iron newel post. The cottage's interior offers a wide stair opposite the entrance. A ground floor room to the left is now part of the bar, retaining an iron tie to a segmental brick relieving arch over the open fireplace and remains of a handsome cast iron grate. A room to the right retains remains of an open fireplace and stone flagged floors are present in the pantry and buttery lean-to. The roof structure is not visible but is believed to be of collarbeam construction. Photographs displayed within the inn document the building's appearance before and after renovations. The building is listed primarily for group value with the Church.
Local climate
Bradworthy Inn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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