56-62, Gillinggate is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1985. House. 8 related planning applications.

56-62, Gillinggate

WRENN ID
ghost-lantern-spindle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 January 1985
Type
House
Address
56-62, Gillinggate, Kendal
OS grid reference
SD 512 922
Coordinates
54.32331, -2.75039
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

These are four houses located at 56-62 Gillinggate, built in 1889, although the porch fascia on number 60 is partly repainted to read 1829. They were designed by J.F. Curwen for J. Taylor and others and feature an Arts and Crafts style. The houses are constructed from snecked rubble with quoins on a chamfered plinth. There is a moulded bressummer on the first floor supported by brackets. The first floors of numbers 56 and 58 are wet-dashed with a sill band, and there is a tile-hung gable on the south return. The roofs are covered with red clay tiles, except for number 56, which has 20th-century concrete tiles, and they feature dormer windows. Decorative iron finials and a weather vane adorn the roofs, and there are corniced brick chimneys. Each house has two storeys and two bays, with part-glazed doors and multi-light casements. Numbers 58, 60, and 62 have full-height canted bay windows, while number 56 features an oriel window.

Local climate

56-62, Gillinggate sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,480 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 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 6 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 8 applications
  • 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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