56, Stramongate is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1969. House. 2 related planning applications.
56, Stramongate
- WRENN ID
- old-portal-evening
- 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
- Address
- 56, Stramongate, Kendal, LA9 4BD
- OS grid reference
- SD 517 928
- Coordinates
- 54.32919, -2.74326
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 56 Stramongate is a house dating from the late 18th century to early 19th century. It features incised stucco with rusticated end pilasters and has a first-floor sill band. The building has a moulded cast-iron gutter and a graduated slate roof, with stone chimneys at each end. It stands three storeys high and has three bays. The entrance consists of a panelled door with a semicircular fanlight above it, flanked by a single sash window to the left and two sash windows on each of the upper floors, with the ones above the door being narrower. All sash windows are fitted with glazing bars.
Local climate
56, Stramongate 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
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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