28 and 30, Abbey Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1949. House. 4 related planning applications.

28 and 30, Abbey Street

WRENN ID
endless-keep-root
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 June 1949
Type
House
Address
28 and 30, Abbey Street, CA3 8TX
OS grid reference
NY 397 559
Coordinates
54.89502, -2.94119
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

28 and 30 Abbey Street are two houses built in the late 18th century, located in Carlisle. They feature painted Flemish bond brickwork set on a chamfered plinth, with all dressings made of painted stone. The houses have a stone-bracketed metal gutter and a graduated greenslate roof, which includes a left coped gable and kneeler. There are chimney stacks from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

The buildings are two storeys tall under a common roof, with No. 28 having two bays and No. 30 having four bays. Both houses have off-centre panelled doors topped with radial fanlights in an open pedimented doorcase. The sash windows, which have glazing bars, are set in brick reveals with stone sills and flat brick arches. Notably, the ground floor right window of No. 28 is a 20th-century bowed window within the original 18th-century window opening.

Inside No. 30, there are panelled shutters, a wooden hall archway with a panelled soffit, and a wooden staircase featuring squared balusters and a moulded wooden handrail. The principal ground-floor room has a recessed alcove and a moulded plaster ceiling cornice. The owner of No. 30 states that these two houses were originally one, and that No. 28 had a Victorian staircase added when the division occurred. For further details, refer to Country Life from May 11, 1978.

Local climate

28 and 30, Abbey Street sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2000
  • Related listed building consents — 4 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • 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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