19, Lowther Street is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1985. Warehouse, shop. 2 related planning applications.
19, Lowther Street
- WRENN ID
- rooted-cellar-clover
- 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
- Warehouse, shop
- Address
- 19, Lowther Street, Kendal, LA9 4DH
- OS grid reference
- SD 515 926
- Coordinates
- 54.32683, -2.74637
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 19 Lowther Street is a warehouse and shop situated on a sloping site, built around 1782 with later additions and alterations. The building features wet-dashed rubble and has a graduated slate roof with a central gabled dormer and a stone chimney at the east end. It is three storeys high with an attic and consists of three symmetrical bays. The entrance includes a part-glazed double door and a rectangular fanlight, flanked by plate-glass windows, all set within a 19th-century corniced wooden surround. The central bay above the entrance is recessed and features a sash window on the first floor and a plank attic loading door in the dormer. Each upper floor has a sash window on either side, with all sashes including glazing bars.
Local climate
19, Lowther Street 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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