King Alfred Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1986. A C19 Public house.
King Alfred Public House
- WRENN ID
- waning-brick-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1986
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- King Alfred Public House, Burrowbridge
- OS grid reference
- ST 357 304
- Coordinates
- 51.06961, -2.91805
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The King Alfred Public House is a public house that underwent refronting in 1806, originally an earlier inn. The roof may have been altered in the early 20th century. It features a roughcast exterior and a double Roman tiled roof with a slight bell cast. The building, which was possibly originally gable fronted, now has a hipped roof with a small section of parapet on the right return and a brick stack rising from the eaves on the left return, along with another brick stack at the rear of the left gable end.
The structure is L-shaped with a rear extension and consists of two storeys and three bays. It has 16-pane sash windows and a semi-circular headed window above a semi-circular headed entrance, which includes a fanlight with radiating glazing bars and a panelled door. The right return has three bays with a lower independently roofed extension beyond. The interior has been significantly altered.
Historically, it was recorded in 1710 as the Anchor and later known as the Bell. The name changed to King Alfred around 1806 when a new road from Lyng to Burrow Bridge was constructed, which required the demolition of the front of the inn.
Local climate
King Alfred Public House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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