Snooty Fox Tavern is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1962. Inn. 4 related planning applications.
Snooty Fox Tavern
- WRENN ID
- outer-mullion-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1962
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Snooty Fox Tavern, 33, Main Street, Kirkby Lonsdale, LA6 2AH
- OS grid reference
- SD 611 786
- Coordinates
- 54.20226, -2.5969
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Snooty Fox Tavern, formerly known as The Green Dragon Hotel, is a late 17th century or early 18th century inn located on Main Street. The building stands three storeys high and is finished with plaster and a slate roof, featuring four chimneys. It has a plinth and rusticated quoins, with windows that have sills and plain reveals. On the ground floor, there are two coupled windows, and most of the windows are sashed with all glazing bars, although two on the second floor were recently blind. The doorway has a wooden architrave and formerly had a consoled hood above it, leading to a six-panel door. A passageway on the right side, which had a segmental chamfered head, has been recently closed off.
Inside, the ground floor has undergone considerable alterations but still retains a large corbelled chimney-piece with a moulded surround and cornice, an incised keystone, and two round-headed niches in either jamb. To the left of the chimney-piece is a fitted spice cupboard with "R.P. 1711" inscribed on the door. To the right, there is a larger cupboard with raised and fielded panels, added since 1934. The stairway is a four-flight closed string dogleg design with square newels and a heavy handrail, although it features modern stick balusters. The top flight has renewed splat balusters of late 17th century style. On the first floor, there is a round-headed niche in the wall of a recently subdivided room, along with two 17th century and three 18th century panelled doors. The second floor contains three latched plank doors, one 17th century panelled door, and one 18th century door with raised and fielded panels. In the attic, there is one 17th century panelled door. The building features a collar and tie beam roof. The Snooty Fox Tavern was formerly known as the Green Dragon and was one of the principal inns, which included an Assembly Room in the now-demolished outbuildings.
Local climate
Snooty Fox Tavern sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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 — 4 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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