Red Lion Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. Public house. 1 related planning application.
Red Lion Hotel
- WRENN ID
- blind-grate-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Red Lion Hotel, Main Street, Hawkshead, Westmorland and Furness, LA22 0NS
- OS grid reference
- SD 352 982
- Coordinates
- 54.37517, -2.99883
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Red Lion Hotel is a public house that may date back to the 17th century but was refaced in the 19th century. It is constructed of stucco and has a slate roof. The building is two storeys tall with an attic and features three bays, along with a one-storey extension on the left side. The windows are sashed, equipped with glazing bars and margin lights, and have label moulds above them. There are gabled dormers, with the dormer in the third bay featuring a top-hung casement window. The entrance has a label mould and a studded, panelled door.
Notable architectural details include two corbels at the eaves, one depicting a man with a pig and the other a man with bagpipes. An ornamental iron bracket supports a lantern and the inn sign. The building has gable-end stacks, and the left return showcases ornamental bargeboards along with two sashed windows that have glazing bars and horns. The extension also includes a sashed window with glazing bars and horns, as well as a gable end stack. The rear wing features 20th-century windows, with two gables on the left side; the first bay has sashed windows with glazing bars, while the ground floor of the second bay has small-paned fixed glazing with opening lights.
Local climate
Red Lion Hotel 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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