10,10a,11,11a, Thorny Hills is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1975. Houses. 2 related planning applications.

10,10a,11,11a, Thorny Hills

WRENN ID
tired-pedestal-heath
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
Houses
Address
10,10a,11,11a, Thorny Hills, Kendal, LA9 7AL
OS grid reference
SD 520 928
Coordinates
54.32888, -2.73919
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos 10, 10A, 11, and 11A Thorny Hills are two houses, now subdivided, built around 1823, likely by Francis and George Webster. They feature tooled ashlar stone on a plinth with corniced pilasters, and there are bands at the first floor sill and eaves. The moulded cast-iron gutter rests on dentils, and the houses have a graduated slate roof with stone chimneys at the mid and end. The buildings are two storeys high and consist of seven bays overall, arranged as four, one, and two.

No 10 has a corniced, canted double-glazed bay window with a sash on the right and a semicircular-headed passage entrance in a recessed bay on the left, with three sashes above. The part-glazed door features splayed reveals and a semicircular fanlight on either side in the passage, with no 10 on the right and no 11 on the left. No 10A is accessed through a passage that adjoins the rear of no 10; it has been extensively remodelled in the late 20th century but is included in the listing because it forms an integral part of no 10. Nos 11 and 11A each have a corniced, canted bay window on the ground floor, with two sashes above. The door to no 11A is located up steps on the north return.

Local climate

10,10a,11,11a, 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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  • Sale history — 6 transactions since 1999
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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