Mill Brow House is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1983. Former workhouse.
Mill Brow House
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-screen-jay
- 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
- Former workhouse
- Address
- Mill Brow House, Kirkby Lonsdale
- OS grid reference
- SD 612 787
- Coordinates
- 54.20326, -2.59549
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mill Brow House is a former workhouse built in 1811. It is a three-storey building with a basement, constructed from squared watershot rubble and topped with a slate roof. The house features three chimneys, quoins, and a plinth. There are four windows with sills and plain reveals; the second-floor windows still have their original iron casements, while the others have been reglazed. The doorway has a plain stone surround and a modern door.
At the rear of the building, which faces Mill Brow, is a former mill that is entered through a door on the first landing of the workhouse. This mill has two storeys at the upper end and three at the lower end, also made of square coursed rubble and with a slate roof. It includes a large segmental-headed doorway and a similar window above, along with a two-leaf plank door that has a fanlight with all glazing bars.
Inside the workhouse, there is a four-flight dogleg stair with stone treads. The ground and first floors are partitioned, likely from the 19th century, while the second floor retains a floor of large stone flags and has rooms that open off a spinal corridor. Originally built as a workhouse, it was condemned by the Poor Law Commissioners and later became a hostel in 1910. The building is now converted into flats.
Local climate
Mill Brow 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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