Palmers Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1999. Almshouses.
Palmers Hill
- WRENN ID
- sharp-chimney-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1999
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Palmers Hill, 1, 3 and 5, Main Street, Sedbergh, Westmorland and Furness, LA10 5RX
- OS grid reference
- SD 656 921
- Coordinates
- 54.32371, -2.53023
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Palmers Hill is a row of six almshouses, now remodelled into three units, dated 1848 according to a plaque in the centre. The building features pale sandstone and blue ragstone arranged in alternating courses of rock-faced masonry, with punch-dressed sandstone quoins, and has a graduated blue slate roof. It has a long rectangular double-depth plan, originally one unit for each pair but now integrated. The design is in a simplified Jacobean style.
The structure is single storey with nine windows. The original arrangement had windows and doorways alternating, with the window positioned to the left of each doorway. However, the second, fourth, and sixth doorways have been changed into matching windows. All openings feature dressed lintels with cavetto hoodmoulds. The three remaining doorways are square-headed, equipped with studded doors that have strap-hinges and plain overlights, while all windows are cross-window casements. To the left of the window of No. 3, there is a rectangular plaque that reads "WIDOWS HOSPITAL / BUILT BY / T.PALMER / AD 1848". The roof has oversailing eaves and verges, with gable chimneys and two ridge chimneys. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Palmers Hill 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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