Wall to Village Pound and Old Fire Engine House Within; North West of Foresters' Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 April 1984. Village pound, fire-engine house.

Wall to Village Pound and Old Fire Engine House Within; North West of Foresters' Hall

WRENN ID
errant-tracery-auburn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 April 1984
Type
Village pound, fire-engine house
Address
Wall to Village Pound and Old Fire Engine House Within; North West of Foresters' Hall, Kirkby Thore
OS grid reference
NY 638 257
Coordinates
54.62568, -2.56126
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The village pound, likely built in the late 18th century, is a rectangular enclosure featuring 5-foot high coursed, squared rubble walls topped with triangular coping stones. There is a 20th-century gate in the east wall. At the rear is a late 19th-century building that originally functioned as a school lavatory before being repurposed as a fire-engine house; it is now disused. This building is constructed of squared, snecked rubble with quoins and has a Welsh slate roof. It is a single-storey structure positioned at right angles to the road, with a door located in the end wall.

Local climate

Wall to Village Pound and Old Fire Engine House Within; North West of Foresters' Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% 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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