Market House is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1983. Market house.
Market House
- WRENN ID
- deep-bonework-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1983
- Type
- Market house
- Address
- Market House, 17, Market Street, Kirkby Lonsdale
- OS grid reference
- SD 611 787
- Coordinates
- 54.20302, -2.59728
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Market House, located at No 17 Market Street, was built in 1854 by Miles Thompson of Kendal. This two-storey building features a symmetrical design with nine bays that turn the corner of Main Street and Market Street. It is constructed of ashlar stone and topped with a slate roof. The ground floor has a plinth of rugged rustication, transitioning to chamfered rustication. There are two impost bands and a cornice, with a panel above the cornice on the central bay that displays the date, flanked by scrolls.
The ground floor originally had an arcade, but all arches have been converted to windows except for the central arch, which retains wrought iron gates. The glazing is recent. The first-floor windows are round-headed with sunk panels beneath and are sashed with all glazing bars. Behind the main façade, the market hall extends back and is constructed of rubble with a blind arcade. The interior contains some cast iron columns, but it has been significantly altered and subdivided. The building was originally funded by subscription to serve as a Mechanics' Institute, library, county court, and market house.
Local climate
Market House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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