Laburnum 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 Bookshop. 1 related planning application.

Laburnum House

WRENN ID
still-marble-jet
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
Bookshop
Address
Laburnum House, the Square, Hawkshead, South Lakeland, LA22 0NZ
OS grid reference
SD 352 981
Coordinates
54.37459, -2.9989
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Laburnum House is a late 18th-century bookshop located on the east side of The Square in Hawkshead. The building is constructed of roughcast stone and features a slate roof that is hipped at one end. The rear wall is made of stone rubble and has quoins. It stands three storeys high and has two bays. The windows are sashed with glazing bars, with three on the ground floor, two of which have horns.

The left side of the building has an entrance with a glazed door and an overlight with glazing bars, along with a sashed window above and a lateral stack. The rear of the building faces Main Street and is gabled, with windows that have stone lintels; most of these windows feature small-paned fixed glazing with opening top lights. There is also an attic casement window and two entrances with glazed doors.

Local climate

Laburnum 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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