Old Friends Inn Including Railings to Front Steps is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1972. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
Old Friends Inn Including Railings to Front Steps
- WRENN ID
- endless-grate-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1972
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Old Friends Inn Including Railings to Front Steps, 49, Soutergate, Ulverston, LA12 7ES
- OS grid reference
- SD 285 786
- Coordinates
- 54.19857, -3.09613
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Friends Inn is a public house located at 49 Soutergate in Ulverston. It was likely built in the mid to late 18th century and features a painted roughcast exterior with a slate roof. The building has a double-depth plan and consists of two storeys plus an attic, with two window bays. The windows are framed by narrow painted stone surrounds with projecting sills and feature paired sashes without glazing bars.
At the upper part of the roof slope, there are two small gabled attic dormers fitted with 20th-century casements. A painted stone cornice gutter runs along the top of the building. The entrance doorcase, also made of painted stone, is adorned with slim engaged Tuscan columns and a flat moulded canopy supported by fluted and shaped brackets. The building is accessed by three external concrete steps that have iron railings. Gable chimneys are present on the roof. The interior of the inn is described as modest.
Local climate
Old Friends Inn Including Railings to Front Steps sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,650 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 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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