Golden Ball Inn (Snatchems) is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1968. Public house. 8 related planning applications.
Golden Ball Inn (Snatchems)
- WRENN ID
- haunted-pediment-starling
- 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
- Golden Ball Inn (Snatchems), Lancaster Road, Heaton-With-Oxcliffe, LA3 3ER
- OS grid reference
- SD 448 615
- Coordinates
- 54.04707, -2.84315
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Golden Ball Inn, also known as Snatchems, is a public house dating from the early 18th century. It is constructed from pebbledashed rubble and features a slate roof. The building has two storeys and the main section consists of two bays. The windows are sashed with glazing bars and are set in chamfered stone surrounds, except for the left-hand window on the ground floor, which has three lights with chamfered mullions. The central doorway, which is located beneath a modern porch, has a cyma-moulded surround. The gables are equipped with kneelers and chimneys. To the right, there is a lower section that has two sashed windows with glazing bars and plain stone surrounds on the first floor. On the ground floor, there is a French window with a plain stone surround, flanked by modern windows with splayed reveals.
Local climate
Golden Ball Inn (Snatchems) sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 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, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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