Kildare Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. Hotel. 6 related planning applications.
Kildare Hotel
- WRENN ID
- hollow-postern-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1984
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Kildare Hotel, High Street, Wigton, CA7 9NJ
- OS grid reference
- NY 255 482
- Coordinates
- 54.82359, -3.16033
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Kildare Hotel is a hotel dated 1887, as indicated by the lead rainwater heads. It is constructed from red sandstone ashlar and features a string course and cornice. The roof is made of graduated greenslate with coped gables and ball finials, and there are ashlar chimney stacks. The building has three storeys, two bays, and a cellar. The entrance includes a panelled door set under a recessed segmental arch within a round-headed surround, which has a pilastered doorcase and a dentilled cornice. Above the entrance, there is a console bracketed balcony with decorative wrought-iron railings beneath a large French window. To the left, there is a two-storey canted bay window with glazing bars. The decorative stonework parapet is located under a three-light gabled dormer window, with a similar window to the right. The hotel was a private establishment until it was taken over by the Central Control Board in 1916 and was returned to private ownership in 1973. It is situated in a prominent location opposite the parish church and is listed partly for group value with that church.
Local climate
Kildare Hotel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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