Solway House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 1984. Hotel. 1 related planning application.

Solway House

WRENN ID
western-sill-swift
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 November 1984
Type
Hotel
Address
Solway House, Bowness, CA5 5BU
OS grid reference
NY 240 621
Coordinates
54.94836, -3.18728
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Solway House is a building dating from around 1830, originally constructed as a hotel to serve the passenger traffic on the nearby Carlisle Canal. It features painted stucco with V-jointed quoins and a moulded cornice, topped by a graduated greenslate roof and ashlar chimney stacks. The structure has two storeys and five bays. The entrance includes a plank door with a painted-over patterned fanlight and a prostyle Ionic porch. The windows are two-pane sash types set in raised painted stone surrounds. There are outbuildings at the rear, but they are not of interest.

Local climate

Solway House 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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