28, Roper Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. Warehouse.
28, Roper Street
- WRENN ID
- empty-corridor-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Warehouse
- Address
- 28, Roper Street, Whitehaven
- OS grid reference
- NX 973 179
- Coordinates
- 54.5465, -3.58765
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 28 on Roper Street is an 18th-century warehouse built of coursed stone rubble, which has since been cemented. The building stands six storeys tall, featuring a door in the center on each floor and stone consoles that once supported platforms. There are two windows on each floor. This property, along with Nos 28 to 30 and Nos 1 to 10 on Scotch Street, forms a group of buildings of architectural significance.
Local climate
28, 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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