28 and 30, Curwen Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1951. House.

28 and 30, Curwen Street

WRENN ID
lone-terrace-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 June 1951
Type
House
Address
28 and 30, Curwen Street, Workington
OS grid reference
NY 006 286
Coordinates
54.64319, -3.54127
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

28 and 30 Curwen Street are two adjoining houses in a terrace, built in the early 19th century. Number 28 features incised painted stucco walls, while number 30 has roughcast walls with angle pilasters. Both houses have an eaves cornice and graduated greenslate roofs with coped gables and kneelers, along with cement rendered chimney stacks. They are two storeys tall, each with three bays. The entrances have panelled doors with radial fanlights set in pilastered doorcases, and there are sash windows framed in painted stone surrounds.

Local climate

28 and 30, Curwen Street 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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