The Sportsman Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1974. Inn. 2 related planning applications.
The Sportsman Inn
- WRENN ID
- ruined-cornice-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1974
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Sportsman Inn, Heads Lane, CA3 8AQ
- OS grid reference
- NY 400 558
- Coordinates
- 54.8935, -2.93675
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sportsman Inn is an inn that dates back to the early 18th century, with later alterations. It features painted rendered walls set on a chamfered plinth and has a local slate roof with an end rendered chimney stack. The building is low at two storeys and consists of four bays. The right side has a 20th-century door and flanking windows, all beneath an overall signboard supported by wooden pilasters. The windows are sash style, set in plain reveals with painted stone sills. A signboard and an inn sign are positioned between the windows. To the left, there is a 20th-century lean-to extension. The interior has been extensively altered. The inn is built on the site of the former Blackfriars Convent, which is a Scheduled Ancient Monument. For further historical details, refer to manuscript notes in Carlisle Library, and a 1900 illustration can be found in Perriam's work from 1988.
Local climate
The Sportsman Inn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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 2025
- 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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