The Golden Inn is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 1988. Inn.

The Golden Inn

WRENN ID
third-niche-torch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 February 1988
Type
Inn
Address
The Golden Inn, Highampton
OS grid reference
SS 483 041
Coordinates
50.81726, -4.15404
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Golden Inn is a Grade II listed inn, originally likely a farmhouse, dating from the 17th century and extended in the 18th and 19th centuries. It features plastered cob walls and a hipped thatch roof, with two brick axial stacks and one rear lateral brick stack. The original layout was probably a three-room-and-through-passage plan, with the lower room on the left having an outbuilding beyond, likely added in the 18th century. The internal arrangement has been significantly altered and probably extended.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical four-window front. The windows are early 20th century casements, with one- and two-light configurations on the first floor and the left side of the ground floor. The right-hand ground floor window is a late 20th century casement. There is a long 20th century lean-to in the centre, featuring a plank door at the right-hand end. Inside, there is a 17th century open fireplace with a wooden lintel. The roof trusses visible in the outbuilding at the left-hand end consist of what are likely 18th century rough straight principals with collars halved on.

Local climate

The Golden Inn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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