18 and 20, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1969. Public house, shop.
18 and 20, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- haunted-bronze-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1969
- Type
- Public house, shop
- Address
- 18 and 20, Market Place, Kendal
- OS grid reference
- SD 515 928
- Coordinates
- 54.32857, -2.74615
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 18 and 20 Market Place is a public house, known as the Football Inn, which has been converted into shops. It dates from the late 18th century and has seen later additions and alterations. The building is constructed from slobbered rubble with quoins and features a moulded cast-iron gutter. It has a graduated slate roof with stone end chimneys and stands three storeys high with two bays. Originally, it had a galleried design. The late 19th-century shop front for no 18 includes a part-glazed door and a vertically subdivided window set within a corniced wooden surround, flanked by fluted pilasters. The shop front for no 20 is from the 20th century. Above, there are 16-pane sash windows.
Local climate
18 and 20, Market Place 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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