70, George Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. House.
70, George Street
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-cornice-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- 70, George Street, Whitehaven
- OS grid reference
- NX 976 182
- Coordinates
- 54.54868, -3.58389
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
70 George Street is an early 19th-century building constructed in 1814. It features a stuccoed exterior and a hipped slate roof, with a cornice supported by brackets. The building has two storeys. The central entrance consists of a panelled door and a fanlight, set within a moulded doorcase that has a cornice on curved brackets. Above the door, there is a 24-paned non-opening window with a moulded sill. The facade facing Scotch Street includes two storeys and a basement, which has a small basement door and one altered window on each floor. This building is part of a group with Nos 84 to 95 on Scotch Street.
Local climate
70, George 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
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- 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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