The Hydro is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1973. Hotel. 5 related planning applications.
The Hydro
- WRENN ID
- peeling-newel-larch
- 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
- The Hydro, Helm Road, Windermere, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 406 970
- Coordinates
- 54.36532, -2.91518
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hydro is a Victorian building designed in an Italian style. It is mainly two storeys high and features a stuccoed exterior with cornice bands between the storeys and round-headed dormers on the roof. The large sash windows are set in moulded architraves with cornices, and the lower windows have aprons. The front of the building, which faces the lake, has seven windows on the first floor, including a prominent two-storey round bay with a balustraded parapet. The entrance is located on the south side in a square three-storey tower, which has a round-arched doorway and a ground floor window, both adorned with fluted pilasters. The top floor of the tower features coupled round-arched windows on each face, complete with moulded arches, fluted pilasters, and a dentilled cornice. Later extensions to the south have been omitted from this description.
Local climate
The Hydro 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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