4,5, Foxhouses Road is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. Villa. 1 related planning application.
4,5, Foxhouses Road
- WRENN ID
- brooding-stronghold-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- 4,5, Foxhouses Road, Whitehaven
- OS grid reference
- NX 980 173
- Coordinates
- 54.54095, -3.57751
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are two semi-detached villas, likely dating from around 1790. Number 5 has been pebbledashed. The villas are three storeys high with a basement, and feature cornices marking the lines between floors. They have panelled doors topped with traceried fanlights, and a shared portico consisting of three Doric columns with curved steps leading up to it. The windows have moulded architraves. Numbers 1 to 20A (inclusive), and numbers 22 and 23 form a group.
Local climate
4,5, Foxhouses Road 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
- 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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