Church House Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
Church House Public House
- WRENN ID
- salt-mantel-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Church House Public House, A 593, Torver, Westmorland and Furness, LA21 8AZ
- OS grid reference
- SD 284 942
- Coordinates
- 54.33887, -3.10189
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church House Public House is a public house that likely dates back to the 17th century, with later additions. It is a one-storey building with an attic and consists of nine bays, with the last five bays being part of the later extension. The second and third bays feature an outshut under a cat slide roof. The windows are sashed, equipped with vertical glazing bars and horns. The fourth bay includes a gabled porch, which has small windows on either side. The first bay has steps leading to the entrance. There are four cross-axial stacks. At the rear, there is an outshut under a cat slide roof, along with a two-storey section that has four bays and a two-bay gabled rear range to the right. The first floor features four sashed windows with glazing bars, while the rear range has sashed windows with vertical glazing bars and horns, and other windows are casemented. Inside, the building has chamfered beams and a staircase with splat balusters leading to the front outshut. The first floor includes two-panel doors and a plank and muntin partition.
Local climate
Church House Public House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,600 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 2 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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