7, Irish Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 1949. House.
7, Irish Street
- WRENN ID
- secret-transept-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1949
- Type
- House
- Address
- 7, Irish Street, Whitehaven
- OS grid reference
- NX 972 179
- Coordinates
- 54.54608, -3.58996
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 7 Irish Street is an 18th-century building located on the north side of the street, dating from 1814. It is a three-storey structure with a stuccoed façade. The entrance features a four-panelled door set within an enriched moulded architrave, topped by a raking pediment supported by console brackets. On the upper floors, there are two 12-paned sash windows on each level, all framed with moulded surrounds. This building, along with Nos 4, 5, and 7 Irish Street, forms a group with Nos 17 and 18 Howgill Street.
Local climate
7, Irish 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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