30, Highgate is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1969. Shop.

30, Highgate

WRENN ID
scarred-hammer-amber
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
Address
30, Highgate, Kendal
OS grid reference
SD 514 926
Coordinates
54.32724, -2.7478
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 30 Highgate is a shop that likely dates from the early 19th century. The building features incised stucco with rusticated quoins and has a string course between the first and second floors. It has an eaves cornice and a graduated slate roof with end chimneys. The structure is three storeys tall and consists of a single bay. The shop front is from the 20th century, while each floor above has a sash window. The first floor has an architrave with a swan-necked pediment. On the south side, there is a blind panel on the first floor, situated between a band and the string course, with scrolled supports on either side of the frame uprights and a finial on the broken swan-necked pediment.

Local climate

30, Highgate 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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