Premises Occupied by Ymca is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. A C18 Commercial premises.
Premises Occupied by Ymca
- WRENN ID
- idle-spire-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Commercial premises
- Address
- Premises Occupied by Ymca, 44, 45, Irish Street, Whitehaven
- OS grid reference
- NX 971 178
- Coordinates
- 54.54577, -3.59071
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The premises occupied by the YMCA, located at 44 and 45 Irish Street, is a mid-18th century building arranged in an open courtyard plan, serving as a prominent feature at the southern end of the Market Place. The building is two storeys high. The central block, occupied by the YMCA, features a slightly projecting porch with a doorway and a cornice supported by console brackets. Above the door is a 12-paned sash window, and there is a gabled dormer above the eaves cornice. Each side of the porch has two sash windows on both floors.
At each end of the building, there are projecting wings: No 44 on the left has a panelled door and one window on each floor facing the street, while No 45 on the right features a 19th-century shop front with a window above. Nos 41 to 45, along with the YMCA, form a cohesive group.
Local climate
Premises Occupied by Ymca 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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