The Cat Head Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 October 1987. Inn. 2 related planning applications.

The Cat Head Inn

WRENN ID
sombre-rafter-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 October 1987
Type
Inn
Address
The Cat Head Inn, Cat Street, Chiselborough, TA14 6TT
OS grid reference
ST 468 147
Coordinates
50.93014, -2.75796
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cat Head Inn is an inn with origins dating back to the 17th century. It is constructed from coursed rubble of Ham stone with ashlar dressings and features a Welsh slate roof with overhung gables. The building has two storeys and an irregular arrangement of four bays. The windows are hollow-chamfered mullioned types set in chamfered recesses, with 2-light windows in the upper bays 2, 3, and 4, and 3-light and 2-light windows below in bays 2, 3, and 4, all topped with continuous labels. These bays step up over a moulded cambered-arched doorway with incised spandrils in bay 3. There is a small 2-light stair window in the upper part of bay 1, which appears blank below. A single-storey extension is located on the north-east gable, featuring a 3-light mullioned window at the front and a 4-light plain beaded mullioned window in the north gable, which has a label. To the south, there is a 2-storey, 2-bay stable wing from the later 19th century, covered with a clay pantiled roof. The interior has not been seen. The inn was formerly known as The New Inn.

Local climate

The Cat Head Inn receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% 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 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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