Old Custom House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. Commercial. 1 related planning application.
Old Custom House
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-entrance-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- Old Custom House, 10, West Strand, Whitehaven
- OS grid reference
- NX 971 181
- Coordinates
- 54.54803, -3.59172
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Custom House, located at No. 10 West Strand, was built in 1814 and is a three-storey building with a stucco exterior and an old slate roof. It features a cornice and frieze, with pilasters at the center and ends of the facade. The building has eight windows across the front; the three bays on the left are symmetrical and include a central segmental-headed carriage entrance. The five bays on the right are also symmetrical and feature a central porch with slender three-quarter columns, along with a frieze and cornice. All windows are twelve-paned and set in well-moulded architraves, although the square windows on the top floor have been replaced. The Old Custom House, along with Nos. 10 to 13 (consecutive), forms a group with No. 1 Hamilton Lane.
Local climate
Old Custom House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- 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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