The Square Cafe, Hillside and Aitken House is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 March 1990. Cafe, residential. 2 related planning applications.
The Square Cafe, Hillside and Aitken House
- WRENN ID
- dim-flue-sorrel
- 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
- Cafe, residential
- Address
- The Square Cafe, Hillside and Aitken House, Broughton West, Westmorland and Furness, LA20 6JA
- OS grid reference
- SD 212 876
- Coordinates
- 54.2781, -3.21162
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Square Cafe, Hillside, and Aitken House are three houses, one of which is now part of a cafe, likely built around 1760 for Gilpin Sawrey. The buildings are constructed of roughcast stone and topped with a slate roof. They are two storeys high with five bays, although the fifth bay has three storeys. Most of the windows are sashed, with some featuring vertical glazing bars. The ground floor includes a casement window in the first bay and a bay window with a hipped roof in the second bay. The entrance to The Square Cafe is accessed by steps and has a lean-to canopy, while there is a basement entrance to the left. The entrances feature half-glazed doors. There are gable-end stacks and two cross-axial stacks. Inside The Square Cafe, there is a staircase with a Chinese pattern balustrade and two-panel doors that have some H-L hinges. This building was part of a planned town square, which is an unusual feature for a village in Cumbria.
Local climate
The Square Cafe, Hillside and Aitken House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
- 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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