Black Bear Inn is a Grade II* listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1950. Inn. 5 related planning applications.
Black Bear Inn
- WRENN ID
- rough-pavement-bracken
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Congleton MP: Sarah Russell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1950
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Black Bear Inn, High Street, Sandbach, CW11 1AX
- OS grid reference
- SJ 758 608
- Coordinates
- 53.14395, -2.36264
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Black Bear Inn, dated 1634, is a Grade II* listed building located on the north side of High Street. It features a timber frame with painted brick nogging, where the ground storey is bricked-in and designed to resemble timber framing. The building has two storeys and two gables with restored barge-boards. The gable above the doorway includes a casement window with moulded wood mullions and a transom, along with renewed leaded lights. Other windows and doorways have been restored in a similar style. The inn has a thatched roof, and a beam over the entrance is carved with the initials NRK and the date. Although the interior has been altered, it still retains exposed ceiling beams and framing timbers. There is also a later two-storey wing attached to the left side, which was likely originally three cottages, designed to mimic timber framing and featuring a tiled roof.
Local climate
Black Bear Inn receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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 — 5 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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