23,24, Roper Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 1949. House. 1 related planning application.
23,24, Roper Street
- WRENN ID
- slow-spandrel-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1949
- Type
- House
- Address
- 23,24, Roper Street, Whitehaven
- OS grid reference
- NX 973 179
- Coordinates
- 54.54669, -3.58805
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
23 and 24 Roper Street date to the 18th century. The building is faced in stucco and stands three storeys high. A base course features Ionic pilasters at each end, which terminate just below a moulded eaves cornice. The two entrance doors are flanked by Doric pilasters and have broken semi-circular pediments surmounted by three-quarter urns. The door to No. 23 has six raised panels. The building has four windows on the ground floor and six on each of the upper floors, all with plain architraves. A flight of six steps leads to the front entrance, accompanied by cast iron railings. Numbers 19 to 25 Roper Street form a group.
Local climate
23,24, 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 — 4 transactions since 2005
- 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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