Number 40 and Entrance to Unitarian Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1969. Parsonage, shop. 2 related planning applications.

Number 40 and Entrance to Unitarian Chapel

WRENN ID
iron-storey-marsh
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
Parsonage, shop
Address
Number 40 and Entrance to Unitarian Chapel, Market Place, Kendal, LA9 4TN
OS grid reference
SD 516 927
Coordinates
54.32842, -2.74559
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 40, originally built around 1777 as a parsonage for Unitarians, is now a shop. The building features coursed, squared rubble and has a moulded wooden eaves cornice. It has a graduated slate roof with two stone chimneys and stands three storeys high with four bays. The shop front is framed by a corniced wooden surround with fluted pilasters, and there is a 20th-century glazed double door on the left. On the right, a large semicircular-headed arch provides access to the Unitarian Chapel at the rear. The passage has ornate wrought-iron double gates with scroll decoration and cast-iron fleurs-de-lis finials on the lock rail and curved top rail. Inside the passage, there is a moulded rubbing strip on the side walls and a panelled door leading up steps on the north side. Each upper floor has four sash windows. A rear staircase, which projects and is elliptical in plan, features a semicircular-headed stair window with interlaced glazing bars.

Local climate

Number 40 and Entrance to Unitarian Chapel 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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