The Blue Ball Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1961. Inn. 3 related planning applications.
The Blue Ball Public House
- WRENN ID
- twisted-cellar-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1961
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Blue Ball Public House, Coombe Street, Bruton, BA10 0EP
- OS grid reference
- ST 683 349
- Coordinates
- 51.11277, -2.45349
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Blue Ball Public House is an 18th-century inn located on the west side of Coome Street in Bruton. Constructed around 1765 to 1770, it replaced an earlier building, the White Hart Inn, which was known to have existed before 1581. The inn is built of local stone, rendered and painted, with stone dressings and a double Roman clay tile roof with plain gables. Brick chimney stacks are also present. The facade is five bays wide, facing the street, with 12-pane sash windows on both levels in bays 2 and 3. Bay 1 is blank on the upper level and features a wrought iron bracket supporting a hanging sign. The upper level includes a pedimented doorway with Doric pilasters in bay 4, framing a four-panel door. Bay 5 features angled, two-storey bay windows, wider with a double sash window at the lower level. Matching elevators are located inside the yard. The interior retains panelling and other features from the 18th century.
Local climate
The Blue Ball Public House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 3 transactions since 2021
- 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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