44,45, Roper Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. Georgian house.
44,45, Roper Street
- WRENN ID
- carved-baluster-curlew
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Georgian house
- Address
- 44,45, Roper Street, Whitehaven
- OS grid reference
- NX 973 180
- Coordinates
- 54.54683, -3.58892
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 44 and 45 Roper Street, built in 1814, are notable examples of elaborate Georgian Gothic architecture. The building has two storeys and an attic, featuring four pointed arched doorways adorned with intricate Decorated style blind fanlights and foliated panelled doors. There are three shop windows with four-centred heads, labels, and foliated spandrels, along with a cornice above the ground floor. The first floor includes five windows, three of which are blocked, set in moulded frames with labels, and is topped with another cornice. No 44 has two attic windows, while No 45 features castellated eaves.
Local climate
44,45, Roper Street 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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