Yard 2; Smoke House is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1985. Smoke-house. 3 related planning applications.

Yard 2; Smoke House

WRENN ID
brooding-basalt-sage
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 January 1985
Type
Smoke-house
Address
Yard 2; Smoke House, Stricklandgate, Kendal, LA9 4ND
OS grid reference
SD 514 927
Coordinates
54.32774, -2.74873
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a smoke-house or drying store, likely dating from the mid-19th century. It is constructed of slobbered rubble with quoins and features a graduated slate roof with projecting eaves. At the ridge, there are two louvres topped with pyramidal roofs. The east elevation includes two sliding doors, each with two rows of four wooden louvres above them, and a third door to the left.

Local climate

Yard 2; Smoke 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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