The Golden Ball Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1951. Hotel. 1 related planning application.
The Golden Ball Hotel
- WRENN ID
- drifting-trefoil-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1951
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Golden Ball Hotel, 4, High Wiend, Appleby-In-Westmorland, CA16 6RD
- OS grid reference
- NY 683 202
- Coordinates
- 54.57687, -2.49132
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Golden Ball Hotel is a late 18th century or early 19th century building located in Appleby in Westmorland. It stands three storeys tall and is finished in roughcast. The entrance is off-centre and features a semi-circular hood. To the left of the doorway, there is a segmental-headed archway that is flanked by a small segmental-headed doorway. The ground floor has two windows, while the first floor has three windows, all of which are 36-paned sashes. The top floor contains three 24-paned sashes.
Local climate
The Golden Ball Hotel 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 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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 — 2 transactions since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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