Information Centre and Bend or Bump is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. House, shop.
Information Centre and Bend or Bump
- WRENN ID
- peeling-doorway-swallow
- 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
- House, shop
- Address
- Information Centre and Bend or Bump, Main Street, Hawkshead, Westmorland and Furness, LA22 0NS
- OS grid reference
- SD 352 981
- Coordinates
- 54.37501, -2.99866
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, known as the Information Centre and Bend or Bump, is a house and shop dating from the early 18th century. It features a roughcast exterior and a slate roof, standing two storeys high with four bays. The first bay projects under a gable, and the first floor jetties out to the front and right side.
On the ground floor, there are two tripartite sash windows with single glazing bars and horns. The first bay has a small casement window facing the front and another casement in a lean-to projection on the left side. The first floor contains sash windows with glazing bars, including one in the left return of the first bay. The entrance to the house, located in the second bay, has a gabled slate hood with trellis sides and an eight-panel door that is part-glazed. There is a sun fire mark present. The entrance to the shop is on the right return of the first bay. The building has stacks at the rear, which also features a horizontally sliding sash window.
Inside, there is a plank and muntin partition, a wide-board door, and a recessed centre board. The shop was illustrated by Beatrix Potter in "The Tale of the Pie and the Patty Pan," published in 1905. This property is owned by the National Trust, given as a gift from Beatrix Potter.
Local climate
Information Centre and Bend or Bump 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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