42 and 44, Scotch Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1988. Commercial building. 4 related planning applications.
42 and 44, Scotch Street
- WRENN ID
- knotted-bronze-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1988
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 42 and 44, Scotch Street, CA3 8PS
- OS grid reference
- NY 400 560
- Coordinates
- 54.89572, -2.93567
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
42 and 44 Scotch Street is a pair of shops with offices above, built in 1889 by George Dale Oliver. The building is constructed of red sandstone ashlar and features tiered pilasters, string courses, a solid parapet, and full pedimented dormers. It has a Welsh slate roof adorned with decorative ridge tiles and a lead cupola on the angle tower. The structure is three and a half storeys high, with three bays facing Scotch Street and a three-bay return on Old Blue Bell Lane, designed in the Jacobean style.
The ground floor has 20th-century doors and shop windows set within the original dividing pilasters. The corner shop retains its overall signboard and original illuminating scrolled metal gas-lamp brackets. The first floor features cross-mullioned windows with two and three lights, and a single window on the angle, all topped with blind round arches. Similar windows above lack transoms. Each facade has shaped, pedimented central dormers, and there is a round angle tower. Below the parapet of the tower is the painted lettering "TOWER BUILDINGS." The shop window of the adjoining No. 46 projects one bay into No. 44 on the ground floor. The original design of the building was published in The Builder on August 3, 1889. The interiors have not been inspected.
Local climate
42 and 44, Scotch Street sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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