Ship Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1967. A Georgian Hotel.
Ship Hotel
- WRENN ID
- inner-pewter-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1967
- Type
- Hotel
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Ship Hotel, Allonby
- OS grid reference
- NY 081 429
- Coordinates
- 54.77298, -3.42947
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ship Hotel is a hotel built in the late 18th century or early 19th century. It features painted stucco and roughcast walls, with V-jointed quoins and an eaves cornice set on a chamfered plinth. The roof is made of graduated greenslate with coped gables and kneelers, and there are painted stucco chimney stacks. The building has three storeys and five bays. A 20th-century door is set within a painted stone architrave and is topped by a 20th-century gabled porch. The windows are sash style, also within painted stone architraves. Although it is a large hotel for a small town, it was once a significant sea-bathing resort for the gentry. Notably, Charles Dickens stayed here during a tour of the Lakes in 1856. An extension to the right is not of interest.
Local climate
Ship Hotel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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