Kentmere Hall and Attached Barn is a Grade II* listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 November 1952. Tower house, farmhouse, barn. 2 related planning applications.
Kentmere Hall and Attached Barn
- WRENN ID
- muted-remnant-primrose
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 November 1952
- Type
- Tower house, farmhouse, barn
- Address
- Kentmere Hall and Attached Barn, Westmorland and Furness, LA8 9JL
- OS grid reference
- NY 450 042
- Coordinates
- 54.43058, -2.84779
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kentmere Hall and the attached barn form a tower house and farmhouse with a barn that has a hayloft over the shippon. The tower house dates back to the 14th century, while the farmhouse likely dates from the late 14th or early 15th century, featuring later alterations and a kitchen extension at the rear. The barn is probably an 18th-century alteration of an earlier wing. The buildings have rubble walls, with the house rendered and roofs made of graduated greenslate. The house has a single ridge chimney stack.
The tower has a 20th-century flat roof that replaced the original pitched roof and was originally four storeys high, including a vaulted ground floor. The house is two storeys tall. The tower features slit openings with flat heads and an inserted medieval window on the south wall, which has two trefoiled ogee lights in a square head with a moulded label and a blank panel above. The house contains 20th-century windows and doors, one of which retains its original stone surround. The passage doorway has a pointed head and continuous chamfered jamb, and there is a small window with stone mullions at the rear.
Inside the tower, there is a garderobe projection in the northwest corner, a spiral staircase, and a blocked doorway in the northeast corner, which is likely the original entrance.
Local climate
Kentmere Hall and Attached Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,480 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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 — 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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