Whittles Furniture Store is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. Furniture store. 1 related planning application.
Whittles Furniture Store
- WRENN ID
- standing-nave-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Furniture store
- Address
- Whittles Furniture Store, Duke Street, Whitehaven
- OS grid reference
- NX 973 183
- Coordinates
- 54.54968, -3.58812
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whittle's Furniture Store, dated 1889, is a three-storey building finished in stucco. It features paired pilasters at each end, arranged in three tiers: Tuscan, Corinthian, and Tuscan. The ground floor contains shop fronts, while the first floor has five windows, including some six-light cross types and others that are two-light sashes, three of which are topped with broken pediments. The top floor also has five sash windows, each with plain pediments. The second bay is highlighted by a top dormer that has a scrolled pediment, pilasters, and wings, along with a swag on the pediment of the first floor. Whittle's Furniture Store is part of a group that includes Nos 4, 5, the Co-operative Store, The Globe Hotel, and Nos 105 and 105A.
Local climate
Whittles Furniture Store 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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