The Bear Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. Hotel. 13 related planning applications.
The Bear Hotel
- WRENN ID
- grey-moulding-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Bear Hotel, Charnham Street, Hungerford, RG17 0EL
- OS grid reference
- SU 339 689
- Coordinates
- 51.41812, -1.51359
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bear Hotel is a hotel located on Charnham Street in Hungerford. It dates from the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, with a possibly older core. The building features a tiled, hipped roof and has two ridge chimneys on the main block. It is constructed of painted brick and has two storeys plus an attic.
The elevation facing Charnham Street includes a two-storey canted bay with vertical sliding sash windows and glazing bars at each end. On the first floor, there are seven vertical sliding sash windows with glazing bars, along with three small gabled dormers positioned centrally. The ground floor has a service door to the left, two sash windows, and a main door that is set beneath a 20th-century stucco porch, which is supported by two Doric columns and features a broken pediment. To the right, there are four additional sash windows.
Historically, the hotel served as the headquarters of Charles I in November 1644, and on December 8th, 1688, William of Orange received commissioners of James II here.
Local climate
The Bear Hotel receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 13 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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