Garden House is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1975. House, restaurant.
Garden House
- WRENN ID
- hidden-loft-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 February 1975
- Type
- House, restaurant
- Address
- Garden House, Fowling Lane, Kendal
- OS grid reference
- SD 525 936
- Coordinates
- 54.33584, -2.73138
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garden House is a house that has been converted into a restaurant. It was built around 1812 for the blind philosopher John Gough and has seen later additions and alterations. The building is constructed of rubble with incised stucco on the ground floor and wet-dashed finish on the first floor. It features an eaves cornice and a graduated slate roof that includes three skylights, along with rendered end chimneys. The structure is symmetrical, standing two storeys high with three bays. A verandah with a tented lead roof is supported by an ornate cast- and wrought-iron arcade. The central entrance consists of a panelled door topped by a semicircular stained-glass fanlight set in a corniced wooden surround with panelled pilasters, flanked by tripartite sash windows. The first-floor windows are sashes set within wooden architraves.
Local climate
Garden House 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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