Border Insurance Advisory Service is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. Commercial building.
Border Insurance Advisory Service
- WRENN ID
- lesser-garret-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1984
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- Border Insurance Advisory Service, 1, Market Hill, Wigton
- OS grid reference
- NY 256 485
- Coordinates
- 54.8259, -3.15881
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Border Insurance Advisory Service, located at 62-66 King Street in Wigton, is a Grade II listed building dating from 1793. This structure consists of four houses with shops on the ground floor. The exterior features pebble-dashed walls, string courses, a dentilled cornice, and angle pilasters set on a moulded plinth. The roof is hipped and covered with Welsh slate, topped with brick chimney stacks.
The building stands three storeys high and has three bays each, with an additional two bays to the left rear that form an L-shape, which includes No 1 Market Hill. The entrances are marked by 9-panel doors beneath patterned fanlights, framed by open pedimented Tuscan doorcases that are accessed via three steps. The sash windows are set within stone surrounds.
No 1 Market Hill, which houses the Border Insurance Advisory Service, features a porch with a 20th-century door under a patterned fanlight, surrounded by pilasters and topped with a console-bracketed cornice. The ground floor includes a shop window, with 20th-century casements above and upper floor sash windows. To the left, there is a segmental carriage arch with a quoined surround and a dated keystone.
Local climate
Border Insurance Advisory Service sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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