The Shakespeare Inn and Basement Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1969. Public house, shop. 5 related planning applications.
The Shakespeare Inn and Basement Shop
- WRENN ID
- solitary-foundation-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1969
- Type
- Public house, shop
- Address
- The Shakespeare Inn and Basement Shop, 78, Highgate, Kendal, LA9 4HE
- OS grid reference
- SD 514 925
- Coordinates
- 54.32605, -2.74781
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Shakespeare Inn and basement shop is a public house that also incorporates a shop, dated 1830, with the initials T.S. (for Thomas Simpson) found on the keystone of the carriage arch. It was designed by John Richardson. The building features wet-dashed rubble on a hammer-dressed plinth and has a first-floor sill band. The roof is covered with graduated slate, and there are rendered end chimneys.
The structure is three storeys tall and consists of three bays, along with a two-bay basement shop. The symmetrical wooden shop front has a cornice and steps leading down to two part-glazed doors, one of which is currently used as a window, with a window at each end. Above, there are two 16-pane sash windows. The carriage arch on the left has moulded imposts and a projecting keystone with an elliptical head. The 20th-century entrance to the Inn is located up steps on the north side in a rear passage. Each upper floor has three sashes with glazing bars, with the first floor featuring 16-pane windows.
Local climate
The Shakespeare Inn and Basement Shop sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,430 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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 — 5 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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