81-83, Lowther Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. Block of houses.
81-83, Lowther Street
- WRENN ID
- white-wall-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Block of houses
- Address
- 81-83, Lowther Street, Whitehaven
- OS grid reference
- NX 975 179
- Coordinates
- 54.54666, -3.58486
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 81 to 83 on Lowther Street are an early 19th-century block of three houses, finished in stucco. Number 81 is two storeys high and features a central doorway with Doric pilasters and an entablature, along with four sash windows on the ground floor and five above. Number 82 is three storeys tall, has in and out quoins, a central doorway with three quarter Doric columns and a raking pediment, and four sash windows on the ground floor and five above. Number 83 is two storeys high, has a doorway similar to that of number 82, and features three windows on the ground floor and four above. All three houses have a moulded plinth and a moulded eaves cornice. Together with Nos 78 to 83 and No 1, they form a group.
Local climate
81-83, 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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