Library Town Hall Trustee Savings Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1984. Municipal offices.
Library Town Hall Trustee Savings Bank
- WRENN ID
- tattered-span-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1984
- Type
- Municipal offices
- Address
- Library Town Hall Trustee Savings Bank, Front Street, Alston Moor
- OS grid reference
- NY 717 464
- Coordinates
- 54.81233, -2.4408
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Town Hall, Library, and Trustee Savings Bank is a municipal office building constructed in 1857 by A.B. Higham of Newcastle. It features rough-faced snecked rubble with quoins on a chamfered plinth and a first-floor string course. The building has graduated slate roofs with stone copings, kneelers, and corniced stone chimneys, all designed in the Gothic style.
The asymmetrical north front consists of two storeys with an attic and five bays. The central tower has a doorway with a pointed head on the ground floor, which supports a clock turret. The windows are mullioned and transomed, some of which are adorned with hoodmoulds. The bank entrance is located on the left side, while the library on the right showcases a large four-light first-floor window with cusped heads under a pointed arch, flanked by niches. The symmetrical three-bay west return maintains a similar style, featuring a central gabled dormer and additional dormers on the main front.
Local climate
Library Town Hall Trustee Savings Bank sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 75 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 53 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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