The Hark to Bounty is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1954. A C17-C18 Public house. 2 related planning applications.
The Hark to Bounty
- WRENN ID
- sharp-merlon-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ribble Valley
- Constituency
- Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1954
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Hark to Bounty, Town End, Slaidburn, BB7 3EP
- OS grid reference
- SD 711 524
- Coordinates
- 53.96692, -2.44171
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hark to Bounty is a public house, likely dating from the early 17th century and late 18th century. It is constructed from sandstone rubble and features a slate roof. The oldest section, located on the right, includes three doorways with chamfered edges and Tudor-arched tops. Each doorway has a chamfered window surround to its right, with the left-hand window having a lowered sill. A continuous drip course extends beyond the right-hand doorway. To the left, there is a 6-pane sash window with a plain stone surround. Further left, a flight of external stone steps leads up to a stepped mounting block.
On the first floor, there is a door with a plain stone surround and five windows, all with plain stone surrounds and 6-pane sashes. The right gable features a blocked doorway, which has been converted into a window with a chamfered surround and Tudor-arched head. On the first floor, remnants of a rebated and chamfered surround can be seen around a 6-pane sash, and above it is a chamfered attic window.
Adjoining to the left is the 18th-century section, which has two storeys and an attic, consisting of two bays. This part has plain stone surrounds for the door and windows, with the ground-floor window surrounds raised. The attic windows, now blocked, have shallow oval surrounds. At the far left are the former stables, now integrated into the public house, featuring paired door surrounds that now contain 6-pane sashes, a small window to the left, and a 6-pane sash in a plain stone surround to the right, along with two similar windows on the first floor.
Inside, on the first floor at the east end, there is a large room open to the roof, supported by four trusses with ties, light collars, and queen struts. A fifth truss with a slightly steeper pitch, featuring a king post from tie to ridge and two braces from tie to principals, divides this room from another space beyond. Beneath this truss, a wooden screen of vertical panels with deeply moulded borders is present, with the muntins tenoned into the tie.
Local climate
The Hark to Bounty sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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