Belsfield Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1973. Hotel. 11 related planning applications.
Belsfield Hotel
- WRENN ID
- buried-wall-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1973
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Belsfield Hotel, Kendal Road, Windermere, Westmorland and Furness, LA23 3EL
- OS grid reference
- SD 402 966
- Coordinates
- 54.36184, -2.92113
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Belsfield Hotel is an early 19th-century and Victorian large mansion located on Kendal Road in Bowness. It occupies a prominent position overlooking the lake from a hilltop and is designed in the Italianate style. The front facing the lake features 13 windows on each of its three storeys, with a stucco finish, a heavy modillioned cornice, and quoins. Some of the windows are round-headed, and there is a verandah on the lake front supported by slender iron columns and topped with iron cresting. At the northern end of the front, there is a four-storey square tower and a three-storey bay window. The windows are adorned with moulded stone architraves.
Inside, the hotel boasts plaster ornamented and gilt ceilings, friezes, and cornices, along with plaster panelled walls and door frames. The doors are painted and feature floral cartouches. The iron staircase has balustrading with a mahogany handrail. The current bar area showcases an Adam-style ceiling with octagonal panelling and painted ovals.
Local climate
Belsfield Hotel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,510 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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 — 11 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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