12, Cross Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. Residential.
12, Cross Street
- WRENN ID
- white-corner-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- 12, Cross Street, Whitehaven
- OS grid reference
- NX 972 179
- Coordinates
- 54.54642, -3.59002
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 12 Cross Street is an early Georgian building, dating from around 1730 to 1740. It stands taller than the other buildings in the street and features three storeys. The façade includes a frieze band and an eaves cornice. The doorway is adorned with Doric pilasters and a raking pediment, and it retains its original door. On the ground floor, there are two sash windows, while each of the upper floors has three sash windows, all with moulded architraves and stone sills. Nos. 1 to 12 Cross Street form a group.
Local climate
12, Cross 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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