88, Main Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. House.

88, Main Street

WRENN ID
standing-jamb-rush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
88, Main Street, Whitehaven
OS grid reference
NX 986 168
Coordinates
54.53669, -3.56732
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 88 on Main Street in Hensingham is a free-standing house built in 1814, situated among rows of terraced houses. The gable end of the building faces the street and it has three storeys. The exterior features scored stucco and 12-paned sash windows, with two on the middle storey and a Tudor-arched window on the top storey. The entrance includes a Tudor-arched doorway. This house is part of a group that includes Nos. 35 to 48 and Nos. 81 to 99, as well as Nos. 4 to 8 Garden Villas.

Local climate

88, Main 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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