The Packhorse Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1949. Inn. 2 related planning applications.
The Packhorse Inn
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-bronze-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 July 1949
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Packhorse Inn, 13 and 14, Christchurch Street West, Frome, BA11 1EQ
- OS grid reference
- ST 773 479
- Coordinates
- 51.23025, -2.32598
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Packhorse Inn is a building that dates from the early to mid-18th century and is located on Christchurch Street West. It is a two-storey structure built of rubble with pantile roofs. The left side of the building, known as No 13, features two bays that are set back and has a projecting two-and-a-half storey extension to the right, which is connected to No 14.
No 13 includes two first-floor windows with bolection surrounds on the left and two similar windows with cornices on the ground floor of the projecting extension. Above this extension are windows with raised surrounds that have ogee moulded outer edges, similar to those on No 14. The right side of No 13 has a small window on the second floor and three windows on the first floor, with the outer two being blind and the centre featuring a 19th-century sash window in an architrave surround with a cornice. Below, there are paired doorways that now have 19th-century sashes, with architrave surrounds and broken serpentine pediments above, which contain carved urns—a local Mannerist feature.
No 14 is slightly lower, also two storeys, and has five windows with glazing bar sashes on the first floor, all with raised surrounds that have ogee moulded outer edges. On the ground floor, there are two doorways, with the left-hand one featuring a raised outer moulded surround and cut brackets supporting a moulded flat hood.
Local climate
The Packhorse Inn receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- 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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