The Old Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1955. Public house.

The Old Inn

WRENN ID
eastward-keystone-pine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dartmoor National Park
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 August 1955
Type
Public house
Address
The Old Inn, Widecombe in the Moor, Teignbridge
OS grid reference
SX 717 767
Coordinates
50.57666, -3.81201
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Inn is a public house that dates back to the 16th or 17th century, with additional wings added in the 18th or 19th century. It is constructed of granite rubble and features a slated roof. The main section of the building has two old chimneystacks on the ridge; the right one is rendered with stone weatherings, while the left gable has a rendered stack. The right wing includes an old rendered stack on the rear ridge, which was originally a front lateral stack serving the end room of the main range. Additionally, there is a 19th-century stone stack on the front gable of the wing and a small 20th-century rendered stack at the southeast corner. The left wing has a rendered stack on the left side wall.

The building has a U-shaped plan, with the main range at the base of the U featuring a four-room layout, where the two center rooms have been combined into one. It is two storeys high, except for a single-storey addition against the inner face of the right wing. The centre of the main range has three windows, all fitted with 20th-century wood casements, except for a 19th-century casement in the upper storey of the inner face of the left wing, which also has a late 19th-century sash window in the upper gable.

On the gable wall of the right wing, there is a flight of stone steps leading to a doorway in the upper storey. The interior has only been partially inspected, but the right-hand ground-storey room features a stone-flagged floor and a chamfered upper-floor beam. It has a large fireplace with plain jambs made of dressed granite blocks and a chamfered wood lintel with a straight-cut stop on the left end, which overruns the right jamb. The combined center rooms contain a fireplace with granite jambs in the right-hand end wall, a chamfered wood lintel with step-stops, and an oven in the back.

Local climate

The Old Inn receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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