The Gardeners Arms is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1984. Public house. 2 related planning applications.

The Gardeners Arms

WRENN ID
sunken-belfry-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 May 1984
Type
Public house
Address
The Gardeners Arms, 21 and 22, High Street, Bishop's Lydeard, TA4 3AX
OS grid reference
ST 168 299
Coordinates
51.06242, -3.18725
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Gardeners Arms is a pair of early 19th-century dwellings, now a public house. The building is constructed of rendered random rubble, with a shallow-pitched roof covered in bitumen slates and brick stacks at the gable end on the right and the second bay from the left. The building is two storeys high and five bays wide. The first floor has 12-pane sash windows, while the ground floor has 16-pane sash windows. A window has been blocked in the second bay from the right. Round-headed doorways with recessed 20th-century doors are located in the second bay from the right and the second bay from the left.

Local climate

The Gardeners Arms receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 — 4 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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