No 1 with Warehouse Attached to Rear is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1989. House, warehouse.

No 1 with Warehouse Attached to Rear

WRENN ID
fallen-shingle-river
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 August 1989
Type
House, warehouse
OS grid reference
NX 971 182
Coordinates
54.54859, -3.59098
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 1 with Warehouse attached to rear is a former house with a warehouse that was derelict at the time of inspection in August 1989. The house likely dates from the early 18th century and was remodeled in the 19th century, while the warehouse is from the early 19th century. The structure features coursed rubble, mostly rendered, with slate gable end roofs, some made of stone and some of Welsh slate, and a bit of brick patching. It stands three storeys tall.

The house faces Marlborough Street and appears to have been truncated, possibly losing one window bay in the 19th century. The warehouse faces the waterfront, with its main elevation almost flush against the end wall of the house, obscured by render. The exterior of the house has only two window openings on the first and second floors, which are original but blocked, featuring slightly projecting stone surrounds. The waterfront elevation shows the house's end wall with a central external stack that has a stone shaft, one window on each floor with raised surrounds and sashes with glazing bars, and another window between the ground and first floors indicating the position of the original stairs.

The warehouse has a regular five-window range with a loading bay, several surviving sashes, and planked doors to the loading bays, all with raised surrounds. There are external stairs to the first floor on the extreme right. Inside, the house has largely been remodeled in the 19th century, but an early 18th-century wooden cornice with cyma mouldings remains at the ground floor level. This cornice cuts across one corner of the room to accommodate a winder stair adjacent to the stack, although the stairs have been removed, leaving the curved shell visible throughout all three storeys. The warehouse contains a 19th-century staircase, and its floor is supported by tapering wooden columns of circular section. There is also a recent stone fireplace with bolection moulding, which is much defaced, on the second-floor end wall. This building occupies a prominent site close to the harbour and significantly contributes to the townscape.

Local climate

No 1 with Warehouse Attached to Rear 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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