The Ship Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 1984. A Late C18 or early C19 Public house. 3 related planning applications.
The Ship Inn
- WRENN ID
- mired-pediment-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 November 1984
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Ship Inn, Thursby, CA5 6PE
- OS grid reference
- NY 325 502
- Coordinates
- 54.8428, -3.05173
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ship Inn is a public house that dates from the late 18th century or early 19th century. It features painted stucco on a chamfered plinth, with V-jointed quoins. The roof is made of Welsh slate and graduated greenslate, and there are rendered chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and has three bays, with former stables to the left that are also two storeys and have two bays. The entrance has 20th-century double doors and a painted-over radial fanlight set in a pilastered surround with an open pediment. The windows are sash style with glazing bars, framed in painted stone surrounds. The former stables have external stone steps leading to a 20th-century door in a 20th-century surround, along with 20th-century windows. The Ship Inn is notable as the birthplace of Thomas Bouch, the designer of the ill-fated Tay Bridge.
Local climate
The Ship Inn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 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 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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