The Pipers is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1976. Inn.

The Pipers

WRENN ID
open-soffit-primrose
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 October 1976
Type
Inn
Address
The Pipers, Bath Road, Ashcott
OS grid reference
ST 442 363
Coordinates
51.12329, -2.79855
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Pipers is an inn that dates back to the 17th century, with a front added in the 18th century and a three-bay range built in the mid to late 19th century. The original five-bay section on the southwest is constructed of coursed rubble, while the front is rendered and colourwashed. It features a double Roman tile roof with a coped verge and a brick stack. The symmetrical two-storey frontage has 12-pane sash windows with exposed sash boxes, a central half-glazed door, and a fanlight with radiating glazing bars.

The later three-bay range to the northeast is taller and made of coursed and squared rubble. It has wide bracketed eaves, a bitumenised hipped slate roof, and brick stacks. The sash windows here also have glazing bars, with two on the right featuring semi-circular heads in a shallow projecting wing that has a front-facing gable. The central door opening has paired three-panelled doors, the top two of which are glazed, along with a transomlight that includes glazing bars. The building is believed to have connections to The Battle of Sedgemoor.

Local climate

The Pipers receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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