The Blue Bell is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. Public house. 3 related planning applications.
The Blue Bell
- WRENN ID
- shifting-crypt-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Blue Bell, 6, the Square, Dalston, CA5 7PJ
- OS grid reference
- NY 369 500
- Coordinates
- 54.84171, -2.98376
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Blue Bell is a public house located in Dalston, dating from the early 18th century. It features painted rendered walls on a painted squared plinth and has a graduated slate roof with a rendered chimney stack. The building is two storeys high and consists of four bays. It has six-panel doors and broad sash windows with glazing bars and painted stone sills. There is a small ground floor fire window that now has leaded panes. A 20th-century public house wall sign is situated between the floors, and there is a projecting 1930s swing sign on a wrought iron bracket at first floor level. The Blue Bell was taken over by the Central Control Board in 1916 and returned to private ownership in 1973. The listing does not include the outbuildings at the rear.
Local climate
The Blue Bell sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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