2, Skelgate is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1976. House.
2, Skelgate
- WRENN ID
- grim-casement-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- 2, Skelgate, Dalton Town with Newton
- OS grid reference
- SD 225 739
- Coordinates
- 54.1559, -3.18716
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 2 Skelgate is a small house, likely built in the early 17th century and altered in the early 19th century. It has a cruck-framed core and is finished with pebble-dash, topped with graduated slate and composition tile roofs. The house is two storeys high and features three windows on the first floor. There is a later addition that is set forward on the left side, which adjoins No. 1 Castle Street. The main entrance consists of a broad part-glazed door located to the right of centre, with a 6-pane sash window on the left and 4-pane sashes to the right and on the first floor. The building has six stone gutter blocks. The taller addition on the left has boarded doors leading to a square-headed vehicle entrance below a 4-pane sash window with a projecting sill, and an end stack on the right side.
Inside, the ground-floor ceiling features three cambered transverse beams and common joists, all made of oak. A central cruck truss is partially exposed, along with the remains of another truss at the left end.
Local climate
2, Skelgate sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,670 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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