Phoenix Tap is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1973. Public house. 1 related planning application.
Phoenix Tap
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-obsidian-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1973
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Phoenix Tap, 66, High Street, Maryport, CA15 6BG
- OS grid reference
- NY 034 365
- Coordinates
- 54.7147, -3.49955
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Phoenix Tap is an early 19th-century building in Maryport, Cumbria, originally a combined residence and premises for a wine and spirit dealer. Maryport developed in the mid-18th century as a planned town by Humphrey Senhouse, initially known informally and later officially as Maryport after his wife. It grew in the 19th century due to local iron and steel industries and shipbuilding, before experiencing a decline in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
The building comprises three separate early-19th century structures, evidenced by the variations in their window surrounds on the ground and first floors. The front is stuccoed, appearing as cut stone, and has a stone-slate roof. The ground floor features a shopfront with two windows and a door with a rectangular three-light fanlight to the north, followed by a public house frontage with a central door, a rectangular fanlight and windows flanked by wide pilasters supporting a fascia and cornice. A window with a moulded surround is located to the south, alongside a passage door. The first floor contains five stone window surrounds with cornices, encompassing a central double sash window and single sashes on either side.
Local climate
Phoenix Tap sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,470 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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