Fleece Inn and Yard Entrance is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 April 1951. A Not specified Public house. 13 related planning applications.
Fleece Inn and Yard Entrance
- WRENN ID
- dusk-bracket-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 April 1951
- Type
- Public house
- Period
- Not specified
- Address
- Fleece Inn and Yard Entrance, Highgate, Kendal
- OS grid reference
- SD 514 926
- Coordinates
- 54.32749, -2.74769
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fleece Inn and Yard Entrance is a public house, likely built in the late 17th or early 18th century. A previous listing suggests a date of 1654, which appears on a panel in the adjoining property to the south that was part of the Inn around 1723. The building features timber framing with jettied upper floors and a wet-dashed exterior. It has a dentilled eaves cornice and a graduated slate roof. The structure is three storeys high and consists of two bays. There is a passage to the rear on the left, with the upper storeys supported by wooden beams. The south return has a 20th-century part-glazed double door, with a wood-mullioned and transomed casement to the left and an 18th-century sash window above. The east elevation includes five wooden Tuscan columns, which are 1850 replacements of the original posts, supporting a bressummer. The ground floor has a five-light casement, while each upper floor has two three-light casements, which are 20th-century insertions that do not match the building's original character. The interior was extensively remodelled in the early 1980s.
Local climate
Fleece Inn and Yard Entrance sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,430 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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 — 4 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 13 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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