Spital Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1975. Farmhouse.
Spital Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- muffled-glass-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1975
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Spital Farmhouse, Appleby Road, Kendal
- OS grid reference
- SD 526 943
- Coordinates
- 54.34211, -2.72956
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spital Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in 1836, located on or near the site of St Leonard's Hospital, which is a medieval foundation. The building has been subject to later additions and alterations. It features rendered rubble on the front, incised stucco, and hammer-dressed quoins on a plinth. The roof is hipped and covered with graduated slate, with a chimney running along the ridge.
The farmhouse has a symmetrical front with two storeys and three bays, including three windows on each floor. On the north side, there is a single-storey central porch with a studded plank door beneath a hoodmould, flanked by a window on either side on both floors. All windows on the front and returns are 2-light, wood-mullioned, with pointed inner heads under rectangular hoodmoulds. The rear features an elliptical-headed door and windows, with a Yorkshire sash window on the first floor. Additionally, there is a lower wing adjoining to the east that was extended in the late 20th century.
Local climate
Spital Farmhouse 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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