Ashley House, North East of Number 16 Finkle Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1984. House.

Ashley House, North East of Number 16 Finkle Street

WRENN ID
solitary-oriel-scarlet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 August 1984
Type
House
Address
Ashley House, North East of Number 16 Finkle Street, St. Bees
OS grid reference
NX 972 118
Coordinates
54.49196, -3.58827
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ashley House is a 19th-century house located northeast of Number 16 Finkle Street in St Bees. It features rendered rubble walls set on a plinth, with stucco corner pilasters. The slate roof has end chimneys, one made of stone and the other rendered. The house has a symmetrical three-storey, three-bay front, which includes a central panelled door framed by a corniced Tuscan doorcase. The windows are sashes with glazing bars, set in stone surrounds, and are taller on the ground and first floors. There is a semicircular-headed stair window on the south return.

Local climate

Ashley House, North East of Number 16 Finkle Street 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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