20, Wood Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 November 1972. A Stuart House.
20, Wood Street
- WRENN ID
- calm-step-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 November 1972
- Type
- House
- Period
- Stuart
- OS grid reference
- NY 422 556
- Coordinates
- 54.89208, -2.90138
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 20 Wood Street is a house dating from the mid-17th century. It features cement-rendered walls set on a chamfered red sandstone plinth. The roof is made of graduated greenslate and has coped gables with kneelers. There are cement-rendered end and gable brick chimney stacks, one of which has exposed brick. The house is two storeys high and has two bays. The doorway is off-centre and contains a 20th-century door within its original painted stone surround. The windows are sash style, set in plain reveals with keystones and small painted sills. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
20, Wood 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
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