Sun Cottage Sun Inn Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. A C18 Public house.
Sun Cottage Sun Inn Public House
- WRENN ID
- crooked-belfry-brook
- 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
- Public house
- Address
- Sun Cottage Sun Inn Public House, Main Street, Hawkshead, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 352 980
- Coordinates
- 54.37407, -2.99848
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sun Cottage and Sun Inn Public House is a public house, shop, and house that likely dates from the 18th century, with later alterations. The building is roughcast with a slate roof, and some exposed stone is visible on the first bay. It has three storeys and six bays; the first bay features a two-storey projecting wing, while the sixth bay has a three-storey wing, and there is a lean-to projection on the ground floor between them.
The first bay includes windows with slate-hung lintels and casements, as well as signs of a blocked loading door. The second bay has a canted bay window, and the fourth and fifth bays have small-paned casements. The sixth bay features a 20th-century shop front with plate glass casements above. On the first floor, there are three sashes with vertical glazing bars and horns, along with one casement in the second to fifth bays. The second floor has wooden mullioned windows with configurations of 2:2:3:2 lights.
The entrance has a panelled door with a hipped roof over it, while there is a plain entrance to the first bay. The building has one projecting lateral stack and one lateral stack in the sixth bay. The left return includes a lean-to garage, and the right return has plain casements and a first-floor entrance. The rear of the building is built into the hillside below the church.
Local climate
Sun Cottage Sun Inn Public House 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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