78,79, Lowther Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. Commercial building.
78,79, Lowther Street
- WRENN ID
- scarred-bracket-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 78,79, Lowther Street, Whitehaven
- OS grid reference
- NX 975 180
- Coordinates
- 54.54687, -3.58538
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 78 and 79 on Lowther Street are mid-18th century buildings that have been stuccoed and rise three storeys. They feature a moulded cornice and an old slate roof. No 78 has a shop front on the ground floor and two windows on each upper floor. No 79 has a moulded doorcase with a cornice supported by consoles, leading up four steps with an iron railing, and a yard entrance to the right; it has six windows on the upper floors set in moulded frames. These buildings, along with Nos 78 to 83 and No 1, form a group.
Local climate
78,79, Lowther 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
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