Rectory and St Mary's Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1962. Rectory. 2 related planning applications.

Rectory and St Mary's Lodge

WRENN ID
hollow-moat-yew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 February 1962
Type
Rectory
Address
Rectory and St Mary's Lodge, Vicarage Lane, Kirkby Lonsdale, LA6 2BA
OS grid reference
SD 610 788
Coordinates
54.20433, -2.59822
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Rectory and St Mary's Lodge, formerly listed as the Vicarage, dates from 1783 and circa 1830, with a fragmentary early wing. The building is three storeys high, constructed of rubble with a slate roof and gable chimneys. It features a symmetrical five-bay design, with the outer bays spaced more widely than the inner ones. The structure includes quoins, an attic sill band, and a projecting eaves cornice that returns some distance on the gable ends to create an open pediment. The windows have plain stone surrounds and are sashed with all glazing bars. The doorway has a deep reveal, a wooden surround, and a hood supported by moulded consoles, with a door made of six raised and fielded panels. At the back, there is a large semicircular bow where the cornice continues, featuring curved windows and sashes similar to those at the front. Inside, the ground floor room with the bow has a coved enriched cornice and a stone Doric fireplace, along with panelled shutters on the windows. The staircase is a four-flight closed string dogleg design with turned balusters and a heavily moulded ramped handrail, with the newels formed by coupled columns. St Mary's Lodge was recently created from a wing believed to date from the 17th century, which was significantly reduced in size in the late 19th century. This lodge is two storeys tall, also built of rubble with a slate roof and one chimney, featuring boxed sashes and a modern doorway.

Local climate

Rectory and St Mary's Lodge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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