The Queens Head Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1968. Inn. 1 related planning application.
The Queens Head Inn
- WRENN ID
- haunted-forge-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1968
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Queens Head Inn, Askham, Westmorland and Furness, CA10 2PF
- OS grid reference
- NY 512 236
- Coordinates
- 54.60599, -2.75554
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Queen's Head Inn is a public house that was originally two houses, dated and inscribed as "T&AN 1682," although the correct date is actually 1762. The building features painted rough-cast walls made of outer limestone rubble with quoins, and it is topped with a graduated green slate roof that has painted-render chimney stacks.
It stands two storeys high with three bays on each side under a common roof. There is a two-storey extension at the rear and a single-storey lean-to extension at the right angle. Central to both houses are double 20th-century doors set in a painted stone surround, which is sheltered by a 20th-century gabled wooden porch. The windows are sash style with glazing bars, and one central window in the right house is situated in a partly blocked doorway that has a dated lintel, all framed in painted stone surrounds.
Local climate
The Queens Head Inn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- 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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