Red Dragon Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1962. Hotel. 3 related planning applications.
Red Dragon Hotel
- WRENN ID
- still-hammer-woodpecker
- 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
- Hotel
- Address
- Red Dragon Hotel, 59, Main Street, Kirkby Lonsdale, LA6 2AH
- OS grid reference
- SD 611 787
- Coordinates
- 54.2029, -2.59688
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Red Dragon Hotel, located at 59 Main Street, is a building dating from the 17th century or early 18th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. It stands two and a half storeys tall and is rendered with a slate roof and two chimneys. The building features a wooden eaves cornice and has two coupled windows with plain surrounds; the ground floor windows are sashed, while the first-floor windows are sashed with all glazing bars. There is a continuous dormer that includes three groups of three lights. The doorway is adorned with fluted pilasters and an entablature, which holds an oval cartouche that appears to be dated 1830 but is painted over. The door consists of nine raised and fielded panels.
Inside, the hotel has moulded muntin and plank partitions on either side of the front door. The partition to the left has been cut through to form an arch, while the one to the right has been recently destroyed beyond a modern inner door. There is a corbelled chimneypiece with a moulded surround and cornice. The open well closed string staircase, dating from around 1700, features a heavy moulded handrail, square newels with acorn finials, and later stick balusters. The main rooms at the front on the ground and first floors showcase exposed chamfered beams, with one beam on the first floor showing stud holes. Additionally, there are two cupboards on the staircase with raised and fielded panels.
Local climate
Red Dragon Hotel 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 3 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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