White Bear Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Pendle local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1952. Inn. 1 related planning application.

White Bear Inn

WRENN ID
distant-facade-poplar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Pendle
Constituency
Pendle and Clitheroe MP: Jonathan Hinder (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 June 1952
Type
Inn
Address
White Bear Inn, Church Street, Barrowford, BB9 6EP
OS grid reference
SD 859 397
Coordinates
53.85347, -2.21524
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The White Bear Inn, formerly known as Hargreaves Great House, is a stone-built house dating from around 1667, as indicated by the date on the porch, although it may be from a later period. The building features a plinth and has three gables on the main roof. The front of the inn includes an 8-light stone mullion window with a moulded and returned dripstone. To the right, there is an 18th-century doorway. Above this doorway is a similar window with a thicker centre mullion, and there is a dummy gable with a 2-light blind window, which has moulded coping and three finials.

The three-storey porch has a moulded doorway with a Tudor arch. The first floor overhangs and contains a 5-light window, where the third mullion has been removed and replaced with a sash window. The second floor features a blind 2-light window. The coping and finials on this gable match those on the other gable, although the right-hand finial is missing. To the right of the porch on the ground floor are a 4-light and a 3-light window with square stone mullions, both of which have sash windows as the second lights. Above these are two sets of twin 3-light windows, separated by a thicker mullion; the left-hand window has a wider centre light, while the right-hand window has a wider first light. Both gables also have blind 2-light windows with coping and finials.

To the right, there is a circular single-storey section with an 18th-century door and window. Attached to the porch are mounting stones, and the left-hand return features a well-proportioned chimney breast. Inside, the building has two inglenook fireplaces.

Local climate

White Bear Inn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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 — 1 application
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  • 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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