New Inn is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1987. Inn.

New Inn

WRENN ID
ruined-transept-khaki
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 October 1987
Type
Inn
Address
New Inn, Sampford Courtenay
OS grid reference
SS 633 008
Coordinates
50.79142, -3.94041
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The New Inn is an inn dating from the early 17th century, with a later 17th-century wing. It features rendered and plastered rubble and cob walls, topped with a gable-ended thatch roof. There are three brick stacks, with the one on the rear wing having a projecting rendered rubble base. The original layout is not entirely clear but seems to consist of a two-room range that may have had a passage between the rooms, each heated by a gable end stack. A one-room wing was added behind the right-hand room, also heated by an end stack and likely built later in the 17th century.

The building is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical two-window front, with the left-hand side gabled and slightly recessed. It features early 20th-century casements with one, two, three, and four lights. To the left of centre, there is a 19th-century six-panel door. The main range extends to the rear of the left-hand end, which has a five-window front with 19th and early 20th-century small-paned casements.

Inside, the front left-hand room has a fireplace with chamfered granite jambs and a replacement lintel. There is a section of a chamfered plank and muntin screen at the rear. The room behind features a framed ceiling with intersecting deep chamfered beams that are unstopped. Its fireplace has rough granite jambs and a chamfered wooden lintel. Additionally, there is a chamfered plank and muntin screen with high hollow step stops above a wooden bench and a doorframe with a cranked head.

Local climate

New 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 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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