8, Portland Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1985. Shop. 2 related planning applications.
8, Portland Street
- WRENN ID
- western-sill-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1985
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 8, Portland Street, Workington, CA14 4BQ
- OS grid reference
- NY 006 285
- Coordinates
- 54.64254, -3.54156
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a shop at the entrance to the Covered Market, built in 1861. It is constructed of painted ashlar, featuring a bracketed cornice, rusticated pilasters, and a chamfered plinth. The roof is covered with slate and is hipped. The building is two stories high and has two bays. A 20th-century rounded corner door is set within a pilastered doorcase, above which is a radial fanlight. To the right of the door is a double round-arched shop window with radial-head glazing bars, set within a pilastered surround. Upper-floor casement windows have glazing bars. The left return wall has a similar design, with a round-headed doorway and windows.
Local climate
8, Portland Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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