18, Irish Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 1949. A C18 House. 1 related planning application.
18, Irish Street
- WRENN ID
- hidden-pier-lark
- 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
- 18, Irish Street, Whitehaven
- OS grid reference
- NX 973 179
- Coordinates
- 54.54609, -3.58773
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 18 on Irish Street is an 18th-century building. It is three storeys tall and has a stuccoed exterior. The ground floor features channel joints to ashlar courses and a cornice at the level of the first-floor sill. The original door is framed with architraves and has a cornice supported by consoles. There are three windows on the ground floor and four on each upper floor, with the ground floor windows also having cornices and console brackets. This building is part of a group that includes Nos. 17 to 20.
Local climate
18, 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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- 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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