19,20, Roper Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.
19,20, Roper Street
- WRENN ID
- broken-panel-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- 19,20, Roper Street, Whitehaven
- OS grid reference
- NX 973 179
- Coordinates
- 54.5468, -3.58842
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 19 and 20 Roper Street date to the 18th century. They are three-storey buildings, stuccoed throughout. No. 19 has a gable end facing Roper Street, with a panelled front door. Both properties originally featured a double-fronted shop window with small panes, flanked by Doric pilasters, a decorative frieze, and a cornice. An entrance to the living quarters is situated above the shop window. The upper floors contain three three-light windows each. Nos. 19 to 25 form a group.
Local climate
19,20, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2004
- 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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