Mitre House is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1968. House. 3 related planning applications.
Mitre House
- WRENN ID
- small-plinth-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- Mitre House, Market Square, Kirkby Stephen, CA17 4QT
- OS grid reference
- NY 775 087
- Coordinates
- 54.47322, -2.3482
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mitre House is a house dated 1663, located on the east side of Market Square in Kirkby Stephen, with later additions. The building features slobbered rubble sides and a pebble-dash front, with the quoins concealed by rusticated stucco end pilasters. It has a graduated slate roof with brick end chimneys and stands 2½ storeys tall with 3 symmetrical bays. The central door, which is part-glazed and from the 20th century, is flanked by lights and has a dated lintel above it. Panelled pilasters support a cornice. There is a single tripartite sash window on either side of the door and three sashes on the first floor. The top floor has three windows of reduced height, with their sills resting on the lintels of the first-floor windows. All windows have plain stucco surrounds. Inside, only the hall retains its original cornice. Extensions added around 1930 to the rear of the property are not included in this description.
Local climate
Mitre House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 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 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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 — 1 transaction since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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