The Railway Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 May 1993. Public house, hotel. 7 related planning applications.
The Railway Inn
- WRENN ID
- waning-quoin-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 May 1993
- Type
- Public house, hotel
- Address
- The Railway Inn, 104, London Road, CA1 2PE
- OS grid reference
- NY 410 549
- Coordinates
- 54.88609, -2.92123
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Railway Inn is a hotel, now a public house, built in 1837. It features red sandstone ashlar on a squared plinth, with angle pilaster strips, a string course, a cornice, and a partial solid parapet. The roof is made of graduated greenslate with coped gables, and there are ridge and end ashlar chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and five bays, arranged in a double-depth plan. The central raised bay includes a panelled door with a patterned overlight, accessed by steps in a pilastered surround. Originally, it had a tetrastyle portico that was removed in the early 20th century. The sash windows have glazing bars set in plain stone reveals, with recessed panelled aprons under the entrance in stone architraves. There are plastic canopies over the ground floor windows. The interior was not inspected. The Railway Inn was built to serve the London Road Station of the Newcastle & Carlisle Railway, which is now demolished. It was referred to as the "new" Railway Hotel in the Carlisle Journal in 1837. At one time, it had an attached bowling green, as shown on the 1842 Map of Carlisle.
Local climate
The Railway 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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