Lowther Gardens is a Grade II* listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 April 1951. Garden. 1 related planning application.
Lowther Gardens
- WRENN ID
- empty-mortar-holly
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 April 1951
- Type
- Garden
- Address
- Lowther Gardens, 2, Devonshire Street, Penrith, CA11 7SR
- OS grid reference
- NY 515 301
- Coordinates
- 54.66406, -2.75272
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 2 (Lowther Gardens) is an 18th-century building located on the west side of Devonshire Street. It is constructed of red sandstone and features quoins and an eaves cornice. The building stands three storeys tall and is adorned with bands. It has a steeply pitched slate roof and three 12-paned sash windows on each upper storey, all set within plain stone architraves.
The ground floor showcases a late 18th-century Georgian shop front, which includes a central set of double doors with a traceried fanlight above, flanked by curved windows with small panes. The shop front is enhanced by panelled wood Ionic pilasters, a cornice, a glazed frieze above the windows, and a full fascia and cornice that extends over the entire ground floor. To the left, there is a small moulded doorway leading to a book yard.
Local climate
Lowther Gardens sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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 — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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