The George Washington Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1968. Public house.
The George Washington Inn
- WRENN ID
- carved-passage-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1968
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The George Washington Inn, Main Street, Warton
- OS grid reference
- SD 498 723
- Coordinates
- 54.14493, -2.7694
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The George Washington Inn is a public house dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of pebbledashed rubble and has a slate roof. The building stands 2½ storeys tall and features four bays. All windows are sashed with glazing bars and have plain stone surrounds. There are three windows on the ground floor, along with a plain stone door surround that frames a door with nine raised and fielded panels located in Bay 3. The first floor has four windows, and there are attic windows in Bays 2 and 4. The building has chimneys on the gables and between Bays 1 and 2. At the rear, there are two gabled wings with windows that have plain reveals.
Local climate
The George Washington Inn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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