Market Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. Market hall.
Market Hall
- WRENN ID
- burning-sandstone-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Market hall
- Address
- Market Hall, Market Place, Whitehaven
- OS grid reference
- NX 971 180
- Coordinates
- 54.54735, -3.59126
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Market Hall, built in 1881 to designs by architect Thomas Lewis Banks, is a notable structure located prominently on King Street, the main shopping street. It is constructed of stuccoed brick and features two storeys with a heavy cornice above the ground floor. At the center, there is a clock tower topped with a domed roof and a large round-headed window on the upper floor. The front of the building is bayed out and includes a tower, while the left side is buttressed and has two storeys of windows, with a cornice above the upper windows.
Local climate
Market Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,580 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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