Storeroom for Newsdale Construction is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1985. Lock-up, storeroom.
Storeroom for Newsdale Construction
- WRENN ID
- stony-slate-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1985
- Type
- Lock-up, storeroom
- Address
- Storeroom for Newsdale Construction, Ritson Street, Workington
- OS grid reference
- NY 004 284
- Coordinates
- 54.64161, -3.54335
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The storeroom for Newsdale Construction, originally a lock-up, was built in 1805, as indicated by the inscription above the entrance that reads "BUILT BY SUBSCRIPTION IN 1805 ANNUAL GROUND RENT TWO SHILLINGS FOR EVE ...." The building is constructed of snecked calciferous ashlar and features a barrel-vaulted roof made from the same material. It is a single-storey structure with two bays. The entrance has a plain boarded door in a plain opening, and there is a similar blocked doorway to the right. The left return wall includes a plank door set in a brick surround, and both return walls have slit vents. Although Workington is known to have had a lock-up, there are no records specifying its location, making this building an unusual and likely explanation for that historical reference.
Local climate
Storeroom for Newsdale Construction 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 sale records on file
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