The Pen Mill Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1983. Inn. 3 related planning applications.
The Pen Mill Hotel
- WRENN ID
- cold-shingle-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1983
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Pen Mill Hotel, Sherbourne Road, Yeovil, BA21 5DB
- OS grid reference
- ST 568 163
- Coordinates
- 50.94486, -2.61571
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Pen Mill Hotel is an inn that is believed to have been built around 1810, with significant remodeling occurring around 1855 in anticipation of the railway's arrival. The building is constructed from ham stone ashlar and features a hipped roof covered with Welsh slate. It stands three stories tall and has three bays on both the road-facing southwest elevation and the side southeast elevation.
The central entrance consists of double doors with three panels and is topped by a cast iron fanlight that is diagonally glazed, all set within a large, plain Doric porch that projects boldly and includes a full entablature. The ground and first-floor windows are 12-pane sashes, while the second floor, which may have been added around 1855, features a low plinth and rusticated quoins. The southwest return elevation is similar, but the central doorway has been blocked and a window has been inserted.
On the left-hand side, there is a smaller two-story extension with three bays, also made of ashlar, which has a double roof with a coped gable and may have originally been a separate house. This extension has a central six-panel door with a projecting pedimented porch and two 2-light timber casement windows on each level. The interior of the hotel has been extensively remodeled around 1970, although some west ceiling cornices remain. The one-story section to the northwest and the buildings at the rear are also of interest.
Local climate
The Pen Mill Hotel receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 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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