The Priory is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1951. Priest's house. 1 related planning application.
The Priory
- WRENN ID
- mired-finial-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1951
- Type
- Priest's house
- Address
- The Priory, Banklands, Workington, CA14 3EP
- OS grid reference
- NY 004 281
- Coordinates
- 54.63893, -3.54349
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Priory is a priest's house built in the early 19th century. It features cement roughcast walls with angle pilasters and a graduated greenslate roof topped with roughcast chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and consists of six bays. The entrance is a panelled door with a radial fanlight set in a stone surround. The windows are sash style with glazing bars, framed in painted stone surrounds. There is a tall round-headed window on the right with intersecting glazing bars in its head. The adjoining school and hall extension is not of interest.
Local climate
The Priory sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,540 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 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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