31, New Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1977. House.
31, New Street
- WRENN ID
- fallen-parapet-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1977
- Type
- House
- Address
- 31, New Street, Wigton
- OS grid reference
- NY 255 485
- Coordinates
- 54.82586, -3.16101
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house located at 31 New Street in Wigton, dated 1746 and inscribed with the initials J. & E.W. The building is constructed of painted brick and features V-jointed quoins and an eaves cornice on a chamfered plinth. It has a graduated greenslate roof with ridge brick chimney stacks. The house is two storeys high and consists of five bays, with a sixth bay over a carriage arch to the right. There are two steps leading up to a six-panel top-glazed door, which is framed by a bolection architrave and topped with a pulvinated frieze and cornice. The upper floor has sash windows, three of which on the left have glazing bars, all set within painted stone architraves. The segmental arch has an alternate block surround and voussoirs, featuring a dated and inscribed keystone.
Local climate
31, New Street sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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