81-87, Main Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. Terrace. 1 related planning application.
81-87, Main Street
- WRENN ID
- empty-rubblework-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Terrace
- Address
- 81-87, Main Street, Whitehaven
- OS grid reference
- NX 987 169
- Coordinates
- 54.53726, -3.56606
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late Georgian to early Victorian terrace of shops and houses located on Main Street, Hensingham. The buildings are rendered in stucco and extend over two storeys. Number 81 has a central doorway and two three-light sash windows with labels on the ground floor, and four modern windows above. Numbers 82 to 85 feature two sash windows on the upper floors; number 82 also has a bay window on the ground floor. Numbers 86 and 87 have Doric doorways leading up steps, along with panelled doors, two sixteen-paned sash windows on the upper floor, one on the lower floor, and cellars. The buildings contribute to a group value with numbers 35 to 48, 81 to 99, and numbers 4 to 8 Garden Villas.
Local climate
81-87, Main 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 18 transactions since 1999
- 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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