Queens Head Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1968. Public house. 5 related planning applications.
Queens Head Hotel
- WRENN ID
- carved-loft-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1968
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Queens Head Hotel, B5320 (North Side), Sockbridge and Tirril, CA10 2JF
- OS grid reference
- NY 502 266
- Coordinates
- 54.63281, -2.772
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Queens Head Hotel is a public house located in Tirril, with its origins marked by inscriptions on a reused lintel dated 1719 and a stone in the front wall dated 1735, along with 19th-century alterations. The building features painted incised stucco walls that rest on a large rubble plinth. It has a graduated greenslate roof and painted roughcast chimney stacks. The structure appears to have originally been three houses in a row, with the leftmost section being the oldest, dated 1735 but likely predating that.
The hotel is two storeys high and consists of four bays. The central section has two storeys and two bays under a common roof, while the right section is taller, also two storeys and two bays, with a rear extension. The left part has a blocked central doorway that has been replaced with a sash window in a painted stone surround, matching the other windows. The central section features a 20th-century roughcast porch with a reused lintel above glazed 20th-century doors. All sash windows have glazing bars and are set in painted stone surrounds. The right section has a similar central porch and doors, flanked by side lights, and broad sash windows in painted stone surrounds.
Local climate
Queens Head Hotel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% 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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- 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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