Gilmarver Flat Gilmarver House Lile Teashop is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. Teashop.
Gilmarver Flat Gilmarver House Lile Teashop
- WRENN ID
- swift-minaret-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1970
- Type
- Teashop
- Address
- Gilmarver Flat Gilmarver House Lile Teashop, Main Street, Hawkshead, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 351 982
- Coordinates
- 54.37517, -2.99917
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gilmarver Flat and Lile Teashop, formerly listed as Gilmarver House, is a pair of houses and a shop dating from the 18th century or early 19th century. The building is roughcast with a slate roof and is oriented at a right angle to Main Street. It has two storeys and four bays, with two bays allocated to each house. Most of the windows are sashed with glazing bars, while the third and fourth bays on the ground floor feature tripartite sashes. The first two bays on the first floor have casement windows. There is a garage door in the first bay and an entrance in the second bay with a glazed door. The entrance to Gilmarver House, located between the third and fourth bays, has a gabled canopy and a panelled door with two flush panels, two fielded panels above, and a top light with decorative glazing. The building has a cross-axial stack and a gable-end stack. The right return facing Main Street has three bays, with the first two under a gable. This side includes one sashed window with glazing bars, a teashop window and entrance on the ground floor, a blind window, and two sashed windows with glazing bars on the first floor, along with a gable-end stack. The rear features a stair window with leaded glazing.
Local climate
Gilmarver Flat Gilmarver House Lile Teashop 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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