Number 99 and Entrance to Yard 97 is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 April 1951. Town house. 1 related planning application.

Number 99 and Entrance to Yard 97

WRENN ID
twelfth-tower-cedar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 April 1951
Type
Town house
Address
Number 99 and Entrance to Yard 97, Highgate, Kendal, LA9 4EN
OS grid reference
SD 514 924
Coordinates
54.32515, -2.74734
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 99, now a shop (empty at the time of survey in April 1984), is a house built in the late 18th century as a town house for the Greenhow family of Stainton. The building features ashlar stonework with end pilasters on the ground floor, a band between the ground and first floors, and an eaves cornice. It has a graduated slate roof and rendered end chimneys. The structure is three storeys high and has three bays. The entrance includes a panelled door with a bracketed cornice, and to the right are two tall 20th-century windows with glazing bars. To the left is an elliptical-headed yard entrance with a double wooden gate. Each upper floor has three sash windows with glazing bars.

Local climate

Number 99 and Entrance to Yard 97 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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