The New Inn is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 February 1977. A C17 Inn.

The New Inn

WRENN ID
sacred-remnant-rook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 February 1977
Type
Inn
Address
The New Inn, Meeth
OS grid reference
SS 547 082
Coordinates
50.85547, -4.06461
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The New Inn is an inn dating from around the mid-17th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. The building features partly rendered rubble and cob walls, topped with a thatched roof that has gable ends. It includes three brick stacks at the main range and one at each end of the left-hand section. Originally, the main range on the right had a two-room plan with a central passage, with each room heated by an end stack. A wing projecting from the left-hand end is likely an 18th-century addition. The original partitions between the two rooms have been removed. At the left-hand end, there is a parallel range that was probably a separate cottage originally.

The exterior has two storeys and an asymmetrical three-window front, with the wing projecting at the left-hand end. The ground floor features small paned 20th-century casements, while the first floor has 19th-century two-light casements with Gothic tracery in the heads on the right and inner face of the wing, along with a 19th-century three-light casement to the left and center. A slight central projection contains a 20th-century plank door, with a similar door on the inner face of the wing. The attached former cottage, set back from the left-hand end, has a four-window front of 20th-century two-light casements, a central 20th-century gabled porch, and a plank door.

Inside, the only original feature visible is a 17th-century fireplace, which has a chamfered and hollow step-stopped wooden lintel and an oven on the right-hand side.

Local climate

The New Inn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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