Foresters' Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 April 1984. Reading room/hall. 1 related planning application.
Foresters' Hall
- WRENN ID
- final-landing-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 April 1984
- Type
- Reading room/hall
- Address
- Foresters' Hall, Kirkby Thore, CA10 1UP
- OS grid reference
- NY 638 257
- Coordinates
- 54.62559, -2.5612
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Foresters' Hall is a building originally constructed as a single-storey reading room in 1832, with a first-floor hall added for the Foresters in 1844. It is built of coursed rubble with a wet-dashed finish and features corner pilasters. The graduated slate roof has stone chimneys at both ends, with the northern chimney blocked at ridge level. The two-storey, three-bay front includes a plank door on the left and two sash windows, along with an inscription on a rectangular panel that reads: "ERECTED BY SUBSCRIPTION 1832 scientia millaeres est praestantior." There are sash windows at either end of the first floor, with a plank loading door to the left of the center. Above this, a second rectangular panel with foliate decoration at the corners contains a dated inscription in an oval frame: "FORESTERS HALL No. 844 AD 1844 UNITAS BENEVOLENTIA ET CONCORDIA," topped by a life-size sculpted deer's head. The north wall has a central plank door to the ground floor, and all openings are surrounded by stone.
Local climate
Foresters' Hall 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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