Queen's Arms Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1976. Public house. 1 related planning application.
Queen's Arms Hotel
- WRENN ID
- idle-tower-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1976
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Queen's Arms Hotel, Biggar Village, LA14 3YG
- OS grid reference
- SD 191 661
- Coordinates
- 54.08487, -3.23754
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Queen's Arms Hotel is a public house located in Barrow in Furness, with origins dating back to the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The building features roughcast over stone and has slate roofs. It is a two-storey elongated structure made up of three sections, with various outbuildings at the rear. The first floor has a window arrangement of 2:2:3, and the entrance is located in a one-storey wing attached to the front-left corner. This entrance wing includes a gabled porch flanked by sash windows with glazing bars and has a tall end stack.
The main range of the hotel has its earliest section at the right end, which contains two 12-pane casements and two 2-light chamfered-mullion windows with 6-pane casements. There is a cemented band at the first floor beneath three 20th-century casements with glazing bars. The next section features a recessed door under a slate hood, a 12-pane casement on the right, and two 9-pane casements above; there is a ridge stack on the right. The left end of the range has a 12-pane sash and a 9-pane casement below two 9-pane casements, with an end stack on the left.
Inside, the hotel boasts a wooden spiral staircase, a corbelled stone fireplace, and beamed ceilings.
Local climate
Queen's Arms Hotel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,670 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 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- 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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