26-34, St Helens Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1974. Terraced houses. 4 related planning applications.

26-34, St Helens Street

WRENN ID
quiet-railing-claret
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 July 1974
Type
Terraced houses
Address
26-34, St Helens Street, Cockermouth, CA13 9HX
OS grid reference
NY 124 307
Coordinates
54.66393, -3.35828
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a row of six early 18th-century houses on St Helen's Street. The houses are built with roughcast or stuccoed facades and have old slate roofs. They feature sash windows, and panelled doors, some with rectangular fanlights, set within stone frames. Numbers 28 and 30 share a central doorway and contain five upper windows each. Numbers 26 and 32 have three upper windows each. Number 32 is dated 1732. Number 34 is more elaborate, displaying rusticated quoins, heavily moulded architraves to its five upper and two lower windows, and a new pantiled roof. The houses are grouped together.

Local climate

26-34, St Helens Street sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,420 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 6 transactions since 2006
  • Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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  • 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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