39-42, Lowther Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. House.
39-42, Lowther Street
- WRENN ID
- dark-step-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- 39-42, Lowther Street, Whitehaven
- OS grid reference
- NX 972 182
- Coordinates
- 54.54882, -3.59028
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
39 to 42 Lowther Street are 18th-century houses located on the southwest side of Lowther Street, built in 1814. These stuccoed buildings rise three storeys and feature moulded doorcases accessed by three steps, with panelled doors, fanlights, and pediments. Number 39 has a triple sash window on each floor, while number 40 has one sash window on the ground floor and three on each upper floor. Number 41 features a triple sash on the ground floor and two single sashes on each upper floor. Number 42 has a triple sash window on the ground floor, an oriel window on the first floor, and a triple sash on the top floor. Numbers 37 to 42 and numbers 44 to 48 together form a group.
Local climate
39-42, 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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