21, Portland Square is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1951. House. 3 related planning applications.
21, Portland Square
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- 21, Portland Square, Workington, CA14 4BW
- OS grid reference
- NY 007 285
- Coordinates
- 54.64238, -3.54002
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 21 Portland Square is a house dating from the late 18th century. It features painted incised stucco with an eaves cornice and angle pilasters, topped by a graduated greenslate roof with roughcast chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and three bays, with a recessed bay to the right under a common roof. The entrance consists of a 20th-century door with a patterned fanlight set in panelled reveals. The sash windows, which have glazing bars, are framed by painted stone surrounds, while the recessed bay has sash windows without glazing bars. Additionally, the left return wall includes a small round attic window.
Local climate
21, Portland Square sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,540 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 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 3 applications
- 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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