Britannia Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1967. Inn.
Britannia Inn
- WRENN ID
- old-pinnacle-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Britannia Inn, Lakes, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- NY 327 048
- Coordinates
- 54.43447, -3.03785
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Britannia Inn is a 17th-century building located in Elterwater. It is constructed from white-washed stone rubble and roughcast, topped with a slate roof, and features two low storeys. The inn has a small gabled porch and displays four small-paned sash windows on the ground floor, with three more above, all arranged in an irregular pattern. On the left end, there is a small recessed wing that includes a sash window on the upper floor and a right-angled bay window below. At the rear, there is a gabled wing. The building has undergone significant alterations over time. For additional context, refer to the general description under Elterwater.
Local climate
Britannia Inn 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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