Kentdale Nursing Home is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 April 1951. Nursing home. 5 related planning applications.
Kentdale Nursing Home
- WRENN ID
- dark-buttress-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 April 1951
- Type
- Nursing home
- Address
- Kentdale Nursing Home, 8, Thorny Hills, Kendal, LA9 7AL
- OS grid reference
- SD 520 928
- Coordinates
- 54.3285, -2.73918
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kentdale Nursing Home is a house built around 1823, likely by architects Francis and George Webster. The building is constructed of ashlar stone and features corner pilasters, with bands at the first floor sill and eaves. It has a moulded cast-iron gutter and a hipped roof covered in graduated slate, which has deeply projecting dentilled eaves and corniced stone chimneys at each end.
The structure is symmetrical, with two storeys and three bays; the central bay is set forward and has a single-storey arch on either side that connects the building to its neighbours. The central entrance is recessed and part-glazed, featuring a decorative fanlight above steps within a pedimented architrave. On either side of the door, there are tall tripartite sash windows in corniced surrounds, each with a balcony supported by low cross-walls and adorned with ornamental iron balustrades. Above, there are three sash windows in corniced architraves, with consoles supporting the central window. Additionally, there is an ornate cast-iron balcony at the window on the ground floor of the south return.
Local climate
Kentdale Nursing Home 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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