The Grammar Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1953. Hotel.
The Grammar Hotel
- WRENN ID
- tall-string-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1953
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Grammar Hotel, Lower Allithwaite
- OS grid reference
- SD 377 792
- Coordinates
- 54.20544, -2.95545
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Grammar Hotel, originally known as The Grammar School, is a hotel built in the 1790s, with extensions added in 1862 and later. The building features roughcast stone with stone dressings, while the 1862 sections are made of coursed slate with limestone dressings, topped with hipped slate roofs. The south facade is two storeys high and consists of the original four bays, with a two-bay extension to the left where the second bay projects forward under a gable. The original section has rusticated quoins and a string course.
The ground floor has round-headed windows, while the first floor features segmental-headed windows, all with plaster surrounds, imposts, and triple keys; the glazing is from the 20th century and has small panes. The entrance in the first bay is round-headed, with glazed doors and a fanlight that includes glazing bars. The first two bays have a sill band on the first floor, and the windows are sashed with vertical glazing bars. The second bay includes a canted bay window with a hipped roof. A datestone is located on the gable.
There are two cross-axial stacks and a return lateral stack. The left return has three bays similar to the front, with plaster aprons on the windows; the central entrance features a timber porch and a 20th-century door within a glazed doorcase. The right return has a small single-storey extension with pedimented gables facing south and east, a round-headed window to the south, and a round-headed window above a blocked door. At the rear, there is a later two-storey range with three bays, featuring top-hung casements on the north side. The north elevation of the original part includes a 20th-century lean-to extension with a lean-to extension on the first floor that has continuous glazing and segmental-headed windows. To the right, there are two bays with sashes and casements.
Local climate
The Grammar Hotel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,590 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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