The Sewing Box is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1984. Shop.
The Sewing Box
- WRENN ID
- lunar-column-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1984
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- The Sewing Box, 2, High Cross Street, Brampton
- OS grid reference
- NY 530 611
- Coordinates
- 54.94238, -2.73452
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sewing Box is a shop that was formerly a house, dating from the early 19th century, with a late 19th-century shop front. The building features incised stucco with raised quoins and a moulded cornice, stone dressings, and a slate roof with lead hips, along with a brick chimney stack. It has three storeys and two bays. The shop front includes a central recessed entrance with decorated wooden surrounds for the door and windows, topped with a shaped and dentilled wooden cornice. The single-pane sash windows have moulded stone surrounds. This building is included for its group value.
Local climate
The Sewing Box sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 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 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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- Sale history — 10 transactions since 1997
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- 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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