Valiant Soldier Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1974. Public house. 2 related planning applications.

Valiant Soldier Public House

WRENN ID
under-panel-rush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 January 1974
Type
Public house
Address
Valiant Soldier Public House, 62, High Street, Bridgwater, TA6 3BN
OS grid reference
ST 296 369
Coordinates
51.12777, -3.00734
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Valiant Soldier Public House is a public house dating from the late 16th century, which was remodeled and extended at the rear in the early 19th century. It features painted roughcast walls, with stone coping on the parapet, cornice, cills, and dripmould. The roof is made of pantiles and has brick stacks located at the right gable end and left of centre. The building has a three-unit plan, with a rear right wing creating an L-shape. It is two storeys high and has a four-window range. The windows are 8/8-pane sashes with flat arches, except for the two flanking the right-of-centre door, which are 6/6-pane tripartite sashes; the ground-floor right window is set under a 19th-century label mould. The door is framed by a 20th-century pointed-arched stone architrave, with a small datestone above it reading '1563'. The rear wing contains 19th-century 6/6-pane sashes. Inside, the ground floor features two stop-chamfered beams, and in the rear right corner, there is a massive stone lintel with a recessed Tudor arch over moulded stopped jambs, leading to an open fire. The room above has a similar, but smaller fireplace located above and to the left of it.

Local climate

Valiant Soldier Public House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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