4, Thorny Hills is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 April 1951. House. 4 related planning applications.
4, Thorny Hills
- WRENN ID
- western-entrance-lichen
- 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
- House
- Address
- 4, Thorny Hills, Kendal, LA9 7AL
- OS grid reference
- SD 520 927
- Coordinates
- 54.32816, -2.73936
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 4 Thorny Hills is a house built around 1823 by George Webster. It features incised stucco with panelled pilasters and a sill band on the first floor, along with an eaves band and cornice topped with a blocking course. The roof is made of graduated slate, and there is a stone chimney at the south end, which is shared with No 3. The house has two storeys and a cellar, with three bays. There is a plank cellar door located down steps on the right side. Stone steps lead up to a recessed part-glazed door set in a pedimented doorcase, which has three wreaths on the frieze. On the right side, two tall sash windows open onto a balcony supported by low cross walls, and there are three additional sashes above. All the sash windows are fitted with glazing bars.
Local climate
4, Thorny Hills 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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