2, Stramongate is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1969. Shop/restaurant. 2 related planning applications.
2, Stramongate
- WRENN ID
- hidden-marble-moon
- 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
- Shop/restaurant
- Address
- 2, Stramongate, Kendal, LA9 4BN
- OS grid reference
- SD 516 927
- Coordinates
- 54.32813, -2.7452
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building at 2 Stramongate is a shop with a restaurant above, built around 1859 by R.C. Shaw for J. Collinson. It replaced the King’s Head Inn and was set back to widen Branthwaite Brow. The building is constructed of snecked rubble with quoins, and features a rounded south-west corner. It has a moulded cast-iron gutter with dentils, and a graduated slate roof with stone chimneys, one mid-way along the roof and one at the end. The building is three storeys high, with cellars.
A restaurant entrance is located off Branthwaite Brow, with a panelled door in a corniced, pilastered wooden surround. The main shop entrance to the corner has a recessed part-glazed double door and a fanlight, with a three-light arcaded window to the left and a two-light window to the right. A secondary entrance opens off Stramongate, with a recessed part-glazed door and a cellar grille below a four-light arcaded window to the right. The shop front is within a corniced wooden surround with panelled pilasters. The arcaded shop windows have foliate decoration to the spandrels. There are six sash windows on each floor above.
Local climate
2, Stramongate 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.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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