Museum of Lakeland Life and Industry is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 April 1951. Museum.
Museum of Lakeland Life and Industry
- WRENN ID
- stark-kitchen-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 April 1951
- Type
- Museum
- Address
- Museum of Lakeland Life and Industry, Kirkland, Kendal
- OS grid reference
- SD 516 921
- Coordinates
- 54.32299, -2.74484
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Museum of Lakeland Life and Industry, originally stables and a carriage entrance to Abbot Hall, was likely built around 1759 by John Carr of York for Colonel George Wilson. It now serves as a museum, having opened in 1971. The building is constructed from limestone blocks with quoins and sits on a plinth. It features impost bands on the projecting central and end bays, a dentilled cornice, and a blocking course on the central bay. The roofs are hipped and covered with graduated slate, with a pyramidal roof and a small lantern on the central bay. The east elevation is symmetrical and consists of seven bays arranged as 1:2:1:2:1, with the taller central bay set forward. The central bay contains a semicircular-headed carriage arch, which has been converted into a glazed museum entrance, with an oval window above it. There are two semicircular-headed windows in the bays on either side, and the bays at each end have two blind semicircular-headed arches separated by pilasters.
Local climate
Museum of Lakeland Life and Industry 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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