Numbers 26 and 28 with Entrance to Yard 24 is a Grade II* listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1969. Shop. 4 related planning applications.
Numbers 26 and 28 with Entrance to Yard 24
- WRENN ID
- stony-niche-elm
- 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
- Shop
- Address
- Numbers 26 and 28 with Entrance to Yard 24, Highgate, Kendal, LA9 4SX
- OS grid reference
- SD 514 926
- Coordinates
- 54.3273, -2.74771
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 26 and 28, with the entrance to Yard 24, is a shop that dates from the 17th century, possibly the late 16th century, with later additions and alterations. The building is timber-framed and has a wet-dashed exterior. It features a graduated slate roof with a stone chimney at the south end. Above the eaves, there are two gabled dormers with tile-hung sides, decorative barge-boards, and finials. A moulded cast-iron gutter runs along the roofline. The structure is two storeys tall with cellars and consists of three bays.
The current shop front, which dates to around 1828 and may have been designed by Websters, has a corniced wooden surround with fluted and reeded pilasters. The front includes three arcaded bay windows that alternate with two recessed, part-glazed doors, and cellar windows are located below the central and left-hand windows. An entrance to the yard is situated on the right side of the building. On the first floor, there are three canted bay windows, and the dormer windows and multi-light first-floor windows are wood-mullioned and transomed, featuring square leaded panes. The centre window on the first floor has three heraldic stained-glass panels inset.
Inside, there are two original framed doors, and a closed string stair with turned balusters, which has likely been reconstructed.
Local climate
Numbers 26 and 28 with Entrance to Yard 24 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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