Bank Court P Smith's Bookshop Town Close, with Decorative Cobbled Paving is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. Shop, house. 5 related planning applications.

Bank Court P Smith's Bookshop Town Close, with Decorative Cobbled Paving

WRENN ID
ancient-sentry-owl
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
Shop, house
Address
Bank Court P Smith's Bookshop Town Close, with Decorative Cobbled Paving, the Square, Lower Allithwaite, LA11 6QB
OS grid reference
SD 378 787
Coordinates
54.20075, -2.95467
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is an 18th-century shop and two houses, with later alterations. The building is constructed of roughcast stone, with a slate roof. It is two storeys high, with one bay at the front. The ground floor features a recessed 20th-century bow window. The first floor has a four-light casement window. Two chimney stacks run parallel along the front. An entrance is located in the left return, leading into the National Westminster Bank. At the rear of the building, there are segmental-headed windows with sash glazing bars, and an entrance up steps. The entrance has a bracketed canopy and a six-panel door. Adjacent to the left is Town Close, which is three bays wide and features sash windows with glazing bars, with the ground floor windows being segmental-headed. Town Close also has a bracketed canopy and a six-panel door. The front of the building is paved with patterned cobbled paving.

Local climate

Bank Court P Smith's Bookshop Town Close, with Decorative Cobbled Paving 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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  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • Sale history — 19 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 5 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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