Elmbank is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1951. House. 1 related planning application.

Elmbank

WRENN ID
silent-steel-holly
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 June 1951
Type
House
Address
Elmbank, 40 and 42, High Street, Workington, CA14 4ET
OS grid reference
NY 008 280
Coordinates
54.63741, -3.53719
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Elmbank is a house from the early 19th century that has been divided into two separate residences. It features painted incised stucco and is topped with a hipped roof made of graduated greenslate, along with rendered chimney stacks. The building stands two storeys tall and has five bays, with a single-storey extension at the rear that is part of No. 40. The entrance includes a panelled door set within a polygonal pilastered and glazed porch from the 19th century. The windows are sash style with glazing bars and are set in plain reveals. The right return wall and the extension also have sash windows with glazing bars, which are framed in painted stone surrounds.

Local climate

Elmbank 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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