4,5, Irish Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. Terrace house.
4,5, Irish Street
- WRENN ID
- proud-panel-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Terrace house
- Address
- 4,5, Irish Street, Whitehaven
- OS grid reference
- NX 972 179
- Coordinates
- 54.54608, -3.59016
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 4 and 5 on Irish Street date from 1814 and are located on the north side. These three-storey buildings are constructed in roughcast with a slate roof. They feature doors with round-arched traceried fanlights, plain architraves that include keystones and imposts. There are three sash windows on the ground floor and five on the upper floors, all set in cement frames. To the right, between Nos 5 and 7, there is a round-arched entry leading to a yard. Nos 4, 5, and 7 are part of a group that includes Nos 17 and 18 Howgill Street.
Local climate
4,5, Irish 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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