Packhorse Inn Including Attached Former Stables is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1977. Inn, stables. 2 related planning applications.
Packhorse Inn Including Attached Former Stables
- WRENN ID
- spare-stair-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1977
- Type
- Inn, stables
- Address
- Packhorse Inn Including Attached Former Stables, Packhorse Court, Keswick, Cumberland, CA12 5JB
- OS grid reference
- NY 266 234
- Coordinates
- 54.6007, -3.13647
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Packhorse Inn, which includes attached former stables, is possibly from the 17th century and has undergone later alterations. The building is pebbledashed over stone rubble and stands three storeys high. It features a round-arched doorway with Gothic glazing bars in the fanlight, as well as a keystone and imposts in the stone doorcase. There are two sash windows on each floor, all set within stone architraves and featuring glazing bars. To the left, there is a two-storeyed wing, and further to the east, there is a long low row of former stables made of stone rubble with a stone roof.
Local climate
Packhorse Inn Including Attached Former Stables sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% 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, 36 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.
- 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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