Beswick's Restaurant and Cafe is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 March 1990. Restaurant.

Beswick's Restaurant and Cafe

WRENN ID
winter-passage-clover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 March 1990
Type
Restaurant
Address
Beswick's Restaurant and Cafe, the Square, Broughton West, South Lakeland, LA20 6JF
OS grid reference
SD 212 875
Coordinates
54.27762, -3.21169
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Beswick's Restaurant and Cafe is a house that has been converted into a restaurant, dating from around 1760. It was built for Gilpin Sawrey and features roughcast stone with a slate roof. The building has three storeys and a basement, with two bays. The windows are sash style with glazing bars, although the second floor has square casement windows. The central entrance is accessed by steps and is adorned with angle pilasters, a frieze, and a cornice, leading to a six-fielded-panel door. There is also a basement entrance. The building has a cross-axial stack and a gable-end stack. On the right side, there is a window with a small-parted casement and a glazed door. The main area is enclosed by iron railings. This building was constructed as part of a planned town square, which is an unusual feature for a village in Cumbria.

Local climate

Beswick's Restaurant and Cafe sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,610 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 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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