8, Front Corkickle is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. A Late Georgian-early Victorian Residential.

8, Front Corkickle

WRENN ID
solitary-storey-claret
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Residential
Address
8, Front Corkickle, Whitehaven
OS grid reference
NX 978 175
Coordinates
54.543, -3.58061
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 8 Front Corkickle is a late Georgian to early Victorian building featuring scored stucco. It has two storeys, a basement, and two gabled dormers on the roof. The entrance is marked by a Tuscan porch with a pediment, which has cast iron fretwork infilling on the sides in a "Chinese" pattern. The ground floor has two plain sash windows, while the upper floor has three, with the glazing bars removed. This property is part of a group that includes Nos. 1 to 12 and Nos. 14 to 19, all in succession.

Local climate

8, Front Corkickle 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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