Plume of Feathers Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. Inn.
Plume of Feathers Inn
- WRENN ID
- endless-basalt-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1987
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Plume of Feathers Inn, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon
- OS grid reference
- SX 590 734
- Coordinates
- 50.54392, -3.99058
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Plume of Feathers Inn is an inn dating from around the late 18th century or early 19th century. It features stone rubble walls that are slate hung and colourwashed at the front, topped by a slate roof that is hipped at either end of the central block and gabled at the front of the wings. The building has two large granite axial stacks.
Originally designed as an inn, the central section likely consisted of two heated rooms, which have since been combined into one, with smaller rooms on either side that project slightly to the front as wings. Outshuts were added at either end in the later 19th century. The inn is three storeys high with a regular four-window front, featuring projecting gabled wings on either side and windows arranged in a 1:2:1 pattern.
The right-hand wing has what are likely original 16-pane hornless sash windows on the second and first floors, with a small-paned 19th-century casement on the ground floor. The central section has 20th-century casements on the second floor, 19th-century 12-pane sashes on the first floor, and a 20th-century French window that leads to a balcony between the two wings. The ground floor features 19th-century small-paned casements on either side of a 20th-century glazed porch with a door on the right-hand side. The left-hand wing has a 20th-century two-light casement on the second floor, a late 19th-century six-pane sash below it, and a 19th-century three-light casement on the ground floor.
Inside, there are plain stone openings to fireplaces that likely originally had grates.
Local climate
Plume of Feathers Inn receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% 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 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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