23 and 25, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1969. Commercial. 1 related planning application.
23 and 25, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- inner-corridor-tide
- 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
- Commercial
- Address
- 23 and 25, Market Place, Kendal, LA9 4TP
- OS grid reference
- SD 515 927
- Coordinates
- 54.32835, -2.74615
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 23 and 25 Market Place is a shop building from the early 19th century, remodelled around 1853 by Thompson & Webster, with later alterations. It is constructed of coursed, squared rubble and features a moulded cast-iron gutter supported by dentils. The building has a graduated slate roof and stone chimneys at each end. It stands three storeys high and consists of four bays. The shop front is corniced and made of wood, with panelled pilasters.
For No 23, there is a recessed part-glazed door with an arcaded window to the left. For No 25, there is also a recessed, part-glazed door, accompanied by plate-glass windows to the left. Above the entrance to the rear passage on the left, there are wreaths, and a wrought-iron grille is positioned above. The windows are sash style with glazing bars.
Local climate
23 and 25, Market Place 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 2020
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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