Magistrate's Clerks Office is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1983. Magistrate's Clerk Office.

Magistrate's Clerks Office

WRENN ID
scarred-quoin-moth
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 February 1983
Type
Magistrate's Clerk Office
Address
Magistrate's Clerks Office, Bishop Yards, Penrith
OS grid reference
NY 517 301
Coordinates
54.66409, -2.74942
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Magistrate's Clerks Office is an 18th-century building located in Bishop Yards. It stands three storeys tall and features a six-panelled door. On the ground floor, there are two eight-paned sash windows, while the first floor has two sixteen-paned sash windows. The top floor includes one sash window that does not have glazing bars.

Local climate

Magistrate's Clerks Office sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% 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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