6, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1985. Commercial. 1 related planning application.
6, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- tangled-latch-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1985
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 6, Market Place, Workington, CA14 4AX
- OS grid reference
- NY 005 285
- Coordinates
- 54.64213, -3.54235
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 6 Market Place is a former bank built in the early 20th century. It features rusticated calciferous sandstone ashlar with decorative eaves modillions and an open baluster parapet, set on a quarry-faced red sandstone plinth. The building has a hipped slate roof topped with a lead cupola over the porch. It is a single-storey structure with three bays. The right side has a projecting porch that includes double panelled doors with a fanlight, all framed in a round-headed architrave with a false keystone. The round-headed windows are set in rusticated surrounds, also featuring false keystones.
Local climate
6, Market Place sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,540 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 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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