79 and 81, Main Street is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. Town house. 2 related planning applications.

79 and 81, Main Street

WRENN ID
silver-ledge-azure
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Yorkshire Dales National Park
Constituency
Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 June 1984
Type
Town house
Address
79 and 81, Main Street, Sedbergh, Westmorland and Furness, LA10 5RY
OS grid reference
SD 658 921
Coordinates
54.32371, -2.52587
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

79 and 81 Main Street are a pair of town houses, likely built in the early to mid 19th century, with some alterations. The exterior features slobbered mixed random rubble and a hipped slate roof. The unique layout includes a wide through-passage at ground level, with each house having its own "front" door on either side.

The building stands three storeys high and has three symmetrical windows. At the center of the ground floor, there is a wide semi-elliptical archway made of dressed voussoirs and an arch-band, which is now closed off by a wooden and glazed screen. This screen likely resembled the one at the rear but has since been modified to include double doors flanked by plain-glazed windows, all topped with an overlight featuring four Tudor-arched lights.

Stone walls approximately 2 meters high enclose small service yards on either side of the archway. The first floor showcases tall 20-pane sash windows, while the second floor has shorter 16-pane sashes. There are chimneys on the side walls and a skylight in the center of the roof. Each house features a 19th-century six-panel door in the passage, and at the rear, there is a wooden and glazed screen with small-paned glazing. However, the rear windows have been replaced with plastic double-glazing. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

79 and 81, Main Street 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 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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