The Old Tavern is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Inn. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Tavern
- WRENN ID
- floating-kitchen-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Old Tavern, Main Road, Compton Dundon, TA11 6PP
- OS grid reference
- ST 489 329
- Coordinates
- 51.09351, -2.73092
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Tavern is a 17th-century inn, now a house, located on the east side of Main Road in Compton Dundon. Constructed of local lias stone, cut and squared, it has a thatched roof with plain gables and stone end chimney stacks, with brick intermediate stacks. The building is arranged in an 'L' shape.
The two-storey facade has four bays, with 2- and 3-light casement windows containing small panes of glass. Bays four upper and three lower are blank, with louvred shutters to the lower windows. A boarded door with a large glazed panel is set beneath a semi-conical thatched hood.
A single-storey thatched extension projects from the north gable, possibly originally a separate shop. The north end of this extension is clad in elm weatherboarding, featuring a small door and a 9-pane bow window, with loft doors above.
The interior is not documented, but it is believed to contain a plank and muntin partition. The building was formerly known as the Hare and Hounds Inn.
Local climate
The Old Tavern receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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