29, Roper Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. A Georgian House.
29, Roper Street
- WRENN ID
- dark-marble-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- 29, Roper Street, Whitehaven
- OS grid reference
- NX 974 179
- Coordinates
- 54.54646, -3.58759
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
29 Roper Street is a late 18th-century Georgian Gothic building. It stands three storeys high and features a balustraded parapet along with a double-curved Dutch gable. The entrance has a moulded doorway topped with a dentilled cornice. On the first floor, there are three windows, each with square labels and sills supported by brackets. This property is part of a group that includes Nos 28 to 30 on Roper Street and Nos 1 to 10 on Scotch Street.
Local climate
29, Roper 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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