15, Curwen Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
15, Curwen Street
- WRENN ID
- rooted-rampart-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- 15, Curwen Street, Workington, CA14 4BD
- OS grid reference
- NY 005 286
- Coordinates
- 54.64297, -3.54178
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 18th-century house located on the west side of Curwen Street, Workington. The building is constructed of painted roughcast walls with a graduated greenslate roof featuring a coped gable and kneeler on the left side. A cement-rendered chimney stack is also present. The house is two storeys high and has three bays, with a lower, recessed bay to the left. A 20th-century door is set within a pilastered, pedimented doorcase, above which is a radial fanlight. The ground floor has sash windows, while replacement casement windows with glazing bars are located above, all set in plain reveals. The recessed bay to the left has a further 20th-century door within a painted stone surround, above which is a casement window with glazing bars in a plain reveal. The building is of group value with numbers 11 and 13.
Local climate
15, Curwen Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- 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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