The Bears Paw Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1991. Public house. 1 related planning application.
The Bears Paw Public House
- WRENN ID
- tall-stronghold-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Preston
- Constituency
- Preston MP: Sir Mark Hendrick (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1991
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Bears Paw Public House, 42, Church Street
- OS grid reference
- SD 543 294
- Coordinates
- 53.75956, -2.69423
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bear's Paw Public House is a public house that likely dates from the early 18th century and was remodeled in the early 19th century. It is constructed of brick in Flemish bond, painted white, with sandstone dressings painted black, and features a slate roof. The building has a double-depth, double-fronted plan with extensions at the back. It stands two low storeys high and has four windows.
On the ground floor, there is a central elliptical-headed doorway with a doorcase that includes two engaged columns, which have capitals adorned with swags, square abaci, entablatures featuring ovals and flowers, a fluted frieze, and a cavetto moulded head. To the left of the doorway is an altered window, and to the right is an enlarged window, while there are round-headed doorways at each end, with the one on the left being blocked. The windows have raised sills and wedge lintels, with the first window on the ground floor and the third and fourth windows on the first floor being sashed, while the others have been altered.
Inside, the public house features early 18th-century chamfered beams with run-out stops.
Local climate
The Bears Paw Public House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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