The Old Roof Tree Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1968. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Roof Tree Inn
- WRENN ID
- hushed-arch-burdock
- 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 Old Roof Tree Inn, Middleton Road, LA3 3LG
- OS grid reference
- SD 424 588
- Coordinates
- 54.02239, -2.87972
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Roof Tree Inn is a public house, likely dating from the late 17th century, with some earlier elements and alterations. It is rendered and has a slate roof, forming an L-plan structure with two storeys. The main front, facing east, features four bays. The windows are mullioned with three lights and have hoods; all are rebated and chamfered except for those in the right-hand bay, which have cement reveals. The entrance, located between the first and second bays, has a chamfered surround with a battlemented lintel flanked by pilasters with incised borders. There are chimneys at both ends of the building.
On the north wall of the rear wing, there are mullioned windows with eight and three lights on the ground floor, and above them, windows with five and one light. To the far right, there is a one-light window with a modern porch to its left. Inside, the partition wall south of the main doorway contains a cruck truss. On the south side, two cruck feet, a tie beam, widely spaced studs, and a timber doorhead are visible. The upper part of the truss can be seen on the north side, with the blades terminating below the apex, either sawn off or covered by plaster, and no longer supporting any purlins. The angle of the blades indicates that this wall is part of an earlier building that was originally one storey with a loft.
Local climate
The Old Roof Tree Inn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 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 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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