The Carew Arms and Attached Outbuilding is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. Inn. 4 related planning applications.
The Carew Arms and Attached Outbuilding
- WRENN ID
- seventh-cinder-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1969
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Carew Arms and Attached Outbuilding, Crowcombe, TA4 4AD
- OS grid reference
- ST 138 367
- Coordinates
- 51.12376, -3.23242
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Carew Arms is an inn that dates from the mid-18th century and was enlarged in the early and mid-19th century. The building has a roughcast exterior over rubble, with the roughcast render removed and the random rubble wall currently being repointed. Quoin strips distinguish the inn, which features slate roofs and brick stacks at the gable ends. There is an independently roofed outbuilding to the east, which has a hipped roof to the right and a brick stack set in one bay to the right, with a lower ridge linked to the inn.
The plan of the inn consists of three cells and a cross passage, which has been enlarged to a U shape with detached outbuildings linked by a one-bay addition from the early 19th century. The building is two storeys high, with a long three-bay facade for the outbuilding and the inn having one bay and four bays. The early 19th-century windows are three-light leaded casements, and there is a central 18th-century plank door with studs. A flat-roofed wooden porch supported by slender pilasters with splayed plinths and dwarf walls is also present. The outbuilding features two-light casements flanking a loft door on the first floor, a plank door on the ground floor, and a three-light casement flanking a plank door and double doors. An early 19th-century painted inn sign is mounted on a wrought iron support.
Inside, the cross passage and the front room to the left have flagstones and remain relatively unaltered. This building was recorded as The Lions, or 3 Lions, in 1747 and became known as the Carew Arms in 1824.
Local climate
The Carew Arms and Attached Outbuilding 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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