Priory Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. Hotel. 10 related planning applications.

Priory Hotel

WRENN ID
narrow-hall-brook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 March 1970
Type
Hotel
Address
Priory Hotel, the Square, Lower Allithwaite, LA11 6QB
OS grid reference
SD 378 787
Coordinates
54.20098, -2.9542
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Priory Hotel is a hotel located in Cartmel, likely built in the late 18th century, with two additional bays added in the early 19th century and an attic storey added around 1850. The building is constructed of roughcast stone and features a slate roof. It stands two storeys high with an attic and has five bays, with the last two bays probably being later additions. The top of the building has a frieze and bracketed eaves.

The first three bays contain sashed windows with glazing bars, while the fourth and fifth bays have small-paned bowed windows on either side of a glazed entrance, with sashed windows featuring horns on the first floor. The attic includes gabled dormers with slate-hung cheeks; the last two dormers have glazed cheeks, and there are sashed windows with vertical glazing bars, along with one top-hung casement.

The entrance in the second bay is framed by half columns without capitals, a frieze, and a cornice, leading to an eight-fielded-panel door, with the upper four panels being glazed. The fifth bay has an entrance with a glazed door. The building also features gable-end stacks. Inside, there is a staircase with turned balusters and round fluted newels.

Local climate

Priory 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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