27, Portland Square is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1987. House, office. 2 related planning applications.
27, Portland Square
- WRENN ID
- ruined-floor-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1987
- Type
- House, office
- Address
- 27, Portland Square, CA1 1PE
- OS grid reference
- NY 404 557
- Coordinates
- 54.89271, -2.92945
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 27 Portland Square is a house, now an office, dating from 1864. It has red brick construction with painted stone dressings, a chamfered plinth, a string course, stone-bracketed metal gutter, and a greenslate roof with a 20th-century boxed dormer, along with rebuilt brick chimney stacks. The building has a double-depth plan and is two storeys high with three bays.
The main entrance features a panelled door and fanlight within a Venetian Gothic surround, incorporating colonnettes and a heavy, bracketed hood. A three-light bay window is situated on the ground floor, set within a stone architrave with a bracketed sill and cornice. Above, sash windows are found within chamfered stone architraves, complete with panelled aprons and decorative sills. The interior has not been inspected. The building is inscribed with the initials JN and the date 1864 over the entrance.
Local climate
27, Portland Square sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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