The Travellers Rest is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1974. Inn. 2 related planning applications.
The Travellers Rest
- WRENN ID
- idle-landing-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1974
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Travellers Rest, Lakes, Westmorland and Furness, LA22 9RR
- OS grid reference
- NY 336 089
- Coordinates
- 54.47131, -3.02553
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Travellers Rest is an old coaching inn located at the foot of Dunmail Raise. It is constructed with roughcast over stone rubble and features a slate roof, standing two storeys tall. The building consists of two blocks that step down the hillside. The upper block has four 16-paned sash windows on the ground floor and two 12-paned sashes above. The lower block contains two doors with modern porches, six sashes on the ground floor, and five above, mostly with 16-paned designs.
Local climate
The Travellers Rest sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,440 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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