Former Romney House Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1969. House, former hotel.
Former Romney House Hotel
- WRENN ID
- knotted-shingle-flax
- 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
- House, former hotel
- Address
- Former Romney House Hotel, 26, Milnthorpe Road, Kendal, LA9 5AU
- OS grid reference
- SD 516 918
- Coordinates
- 54.31984, -2.74518
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Romney House Hotel is a house that dates from the early to mid-18th century. It is constructed of coursed rubble, rendered at the front, and features rusticated corner pilasters on a plinth, along with a dentilled eaves cornice. The building has a graduated slate roof with stone end chimneys. It stands three storeys tall and has three bays. The entrance includes a part-glazed door with a rectangular fanlight, set in a surround with a cornice supported by tapered pilasters. There is a narrow sash window to the right and two sash windows to the left, with three sash windows on each floor above. A sign hangs from a wrought-iron bracket that projects above the door. Between the ground and first floors, there is a late 19th-century painted, circular, cast-iron plaque that reads: "HERE LIVED FOR A TIME AND DIED GEORGE ROMNEY PORTRAIT PAINTER BORN AT DALTON IN FURNESS 1734 DIED 1802."
Local climate
Former Romney House Hotel 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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