Lion and Lamb Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. A C18 Public house.
Lion and Lamb Hotel
- WRENN ID
- winter-chalk-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1984
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Lion and Lamb Hotel, 29 and 31, High Street, Wigton
- OS grid reference
- NY 255 483
- Coordinates
- 54.82418, -3.1604
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lion and Lamb Hotel is a public house dating from the late 18th century. It features painted rendered walls set on a chamfered plinth and has a graduated greenslate roof, which has been repaired with Welsh slates. The building stands three storeys high and consists of four bays, with an extension at the rear. The main entrance has a six-panel door framed by a pedimented Ionic doorcase. There are sash windows throughout, with the window to the right of the entrance being double, all set in painted stone surrounds. The rear extension has cement rendered walls and sash windows, while a further toilet extension is noted as being of no interest.
Local climate
Lion and Lamb Hotel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% 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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