Tower Bank Arms Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. A C18 Public house. 1 related planning application.
Tower Bank Arms Public House
- WRENN ID
- ragged-hammer-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Tower Bank Arms Public House, B5285, Claife, Westmorland and Furness, LA22 0LF
- OS grid reference
- SD 370 955
- Coordinates
- 54.35181, -2.97015
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tower Bank Arms Public House is a building that likely dates from the 18th century or early 19th century. It is constructed of roughcast stone and has a slate roof. The structure is two storeys high and features three bays, with the first bay canted back, which may have been added later.
On the ground floor, there is a bay window with a hipped roof and paired sash windows with horns in the first bay. The second and third bays have sash windows, with the second bay featuring vertical glazing bars and the third bay having standard glazing bars. The first floor includes a sash window with glazing bars in the first bay and small-paned casements in the second and third bays. The entrance is situated between the second and third bays and is framed by a timber gabled porch that has a clock on the gable. The building has gable-end stacks.
The left side of the building has a gabled two-bay range at the rear, which includes a lean-to outshut that projects as a single-pitch wing, along with a gabled porch. The right side features a lean-to outshut. The rear of the building is low and built into the hillside below Hill Top.
This public house was illustrated by Beatrix Potter in 'The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck' published in 1908, and a reproduction of this illustration can be found on the inn sign on the left return.
Local climate
Tower Bank Arms Public House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,530 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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