1, Lowther Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. House.

1, Lowther Street

WRENN ID
waning-bailey-shade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
1, Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Copeland
OS grid reference
NX 975 179
Coordinates
54.54631, -3.58485
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 1 Lowther Street is an 18th-century building constructed in 1814. It features two storeys with rusticated quoins, a cornice, and a parapet. The central entrance has a moulded doorway flanked by Tuscan pilasters and topped with a pediment. There are four sash windows on the ground floor and five above, all in plain frames. A lead rainwater pipe and head are also present. This building forms a group with Nos 78 to 83, which are consecutive.

Local climate

1, Lowther 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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