The Old Bear Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Amber Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1980. A C18 Public house.

The Old Bear Inn

WRENN ID
solemn-brass-hyssop
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Amber Valley
Constituency
Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 August 1980
Type
Public house
Address
The Old Bear Inn, Alderwasley
OS grid reference
SK 314 527
Coordinates
53.07101, -1.53268
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Bear Inn is a public house dating from the mid-18th century. It is constructed from regularly coursed, squared gritstone with quoins, plain gables, end brick ridge stacks, and a plain tiled roof. The building has an 'L' plan layout, with recently remodelled single-storey extensions at the rear.

The south elevation features two storeys with attics and four bays, with the western bay being gabled and advanced. The central doorway has a quoined surround, a deeply bracketed flat hood, and a 20th-century door. On either side of the doorway are stacked window openings that were originally flush mullioned but now have 20th-century glazing bar casements within old surrounds. The first and attic floor windows are of two lights, while the ground floor openings are three lights, which have been reduced in height by infill at the base. There are 20th-century shutters on the ground floor. Above the doorway is a two-stage stair window with a flush surround and a shallow arched head to the upper light. The advanced wing has a 20th-century three-light casement on the ground floor and a first-floor doorway on the east side elevation, accessed by a flight of stone steps. Both this opening and the plain ground floor doorway below have plain planked doors.

Local climate

The Old Bear Inn receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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