17, Irish Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.
17, Irish Street
- WRENN ID
- sacred-oriel-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- 17, Irish Street, Whitehaven
- OS grid reference
- NX 974 179
- Coordinates
- 54.54612, -3.58753
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
17 Irish Street is an 18th-century building that was refaced in the 19th century. It stands three storeys high and features a band above the ground floor. Access is via a panelled door that is reached by three steps and is topped with a broken pediment. The ground floor has three sash windows, each with flush pediments and foliated tympana. The first floor contains four windows that are adorned with Venetian-shaped cornice or pediments. This building is part of a group that includes numbers 17 to 20, which are consecutive.
Local climate
17, Irish 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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