Number 28 and Entrance to Yard 28 is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 April 1951. House, shop.

Number 28 and Entrance to Yard 28

WRENN ID
forgotten-pillar-cream
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
House, shop
Address
Number 28 and Entrance to Yard 28, Kirkland (W Side), Kendal
OS grid reference
SD 515 921
Coordinates
54.32268, -2.74646
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 28, now a shop, is a house dating from the 17th century with later alterations. It features wet-dashed lath and plaster on a stone plinth, and each floor jetties out with visible beam-ends. The building has a graduated slate roof and a stone chimney at the south end. It stands three storeys tall. The central part-glazed door is flanked by plate-glass windows in an early 20th-century corniced shop front, with a plank door leading to Yard 28 on the right. The upper storeys are symmetrical, with the first floor having two paired sashes with glazing bars, and the second floor featuring three gabled dormers at the eaves with square-leaded casements. Originally, there were south-facing attic windows. In a description from 1900, it was referred to as Pembroke House, which may suggest a connection to Lady Anne Clifford.

Local climate

Number 28 and Entrance to Yard 28 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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