The Ship Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. Inn. 4 related planning applications.

The Ship Inn

WRENN ID
broken-tin-shade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Exmoor National Park
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 May 1969
Type
Inn
Address
The Ship Inn, Porlock Hill, Somerset, TA24 8QD
OS grid reference
SS 884 467
Coordinates
51.20896, -3.59865
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Ship Inn is an inn that dates from the 16th to 17th century, with alterations and enlargements made in the early to mid-19th century. The building features roughcast, rendered, and exposed random rubble, topped with a thatched roof that is half-hipped on the left side, and a shallow pitched slate roof with coped verges on the right. There is a lateral stack with a circular pot located between the third and fourth bays on the left, along with rendered stacks on the right gable end and at the junction with the earlier block.

The plan of the inn likely consists of three cells and a cross passage, which has been enlarged by one bay on the left and subsequently extended by four bays on the right. The building is two storeys high and has a facade with three bays on the left, two in the middle, and four on the right, with the end bay addition set at an angle. The left two bays contain 20th-century windows, while there is a 16-pane sash window to the left of the stack, two similar windows to the right, and four in the extension. On the ground floor, there is a 19th-century door leading to a store, accompanied by a wooden trefoil-headed side light that has been reset. To the left of the plank door is a 16-pane sash window, and there is a rustic wooden porch. A 20th-century nine-pane sash window is located to the left of the stack, with a four-step mounting block nearby. To the left of the 20th-century door is a 16-pane sash window. The extension on the right features two cambered-headed archways, with a carriageway opening on the left, double doors on the right, and two cambered doorways beyond rectangular lights.

The interior of the Ship Inn has been extensively altered.

Local climate

The Ship Inn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2017
  • Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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