2, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1975. Shop.

2, Market Place

WRENN ID
errant-floor-summer
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 February 1975
Type
Shop
Address
2, Market Place, Kendal
OS grid reference
SD 515 928
Coordinates
54.32855, -2.74686
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 2 Market Place is a shop built around 1818 for Edward Burton, with later alterations. The building features incised stucco and a moulded cast-iron gutter. It has a graduated slate roof with rendered, corniced end chimneys. The structure stands four storeys high and has two bays. The ground floor has a 20th-century shop front, while the upper floors each contain two sash windows with glazing bars.

Local climate

2, 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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