Market Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 March 1990. Market hall.
Market Hall
- WRENN ID
- silver-beam-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 March 1990
- Type
- Market hall
- Address
- Market Hall, the Square, Broughton West, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 212 875
- Coordinates
- 54.27756, -3.21157
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Market Hall, built around 1760 for Gilpin Sawrey, is located in Broughton-in-Furness. It is constructed of roughcast stone with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has four bays. The ground floor showcases a round-arched arcade supported by square piers with plain capital blocks. The arches are detailed with keys and hoodboards, and the openings now contain infill of entrances and small-paned glazing.
On the first floor, there are paired round-headed windows with keys, sashes, and glazing bars. A central clock face, set in a square architrave and dated 1766, is prominently displayed, along with a lantern on a bracket at one end. The bell turret at the ridge is square, featuring round arches, a pyramidal roof, a ball finial, and a weather vane adorned with hunting figures. The Market Hall was built as part of a planned town square, making it an unusual feature in a Cumbrian village.
Local climate
Market Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,610 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 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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