17, Castle Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 November 1972. House, shop. 2 related planning applications.
17, Castle Street
- WRENN ID
- distant-spandrel-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 November 1972
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- 17, Castle Street, CA3 8SY
- OS grid reference
- NY 398 560
- Coordinates
- 54.89563, -2.93927
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
17 Castle Street is a house that has been converted into a shop with storage space above. It was built in 1798, as indicated by the inscription "J & MF" on the lead rainwater head, and it was constructed as a pair with No. 19. The building features painted rendered walls resting on a rendered plinth, with a string course and a modillioned eaves cornice. It has a slate roof and brick chimney stacks at the ridge and ends.
The house is three storeys high and has three bays, designed as a double-depth house with stairs on the front side. The entrance consists of a left panelled door with a glazed fanlight, framed by pilasters and topped with a bracketed cornice, accessed by steps. The windows are sash style with glazing bars, set in painted stone architraves, and there are smaller attic windows.
Inside, the property includes panelled doors within panelled reveals and internal panelled shutters on each floor. The ceilings are adorned with moulded plaster cornices and a picture rail. A cantilever stone staircase features wrought-iron scrolled balusters and a moulded wooden handrail, along with a contemporary wrought-iron safety rail. The upper floor contains a painted stone fireplace decorated with heraldic roundels. For more details, refer to the description of No. 19 Castle Street next door.
Local climate
17, Castle 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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