81, Main Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1984. House.

81, Main Street

WRENN ID
under-arch-brook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 August 1984
Type
House
Address
81, Main Street, St. Bees
OS grid reference
NX 971 113
Coordinates
54.48702, -3.58985
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 81 on Main Street is a house dated 1838, built for John and Jane Noble, as indicated on the panel above the door. The structure is made of snecked rubble with quoins and an eaves band. It features 20th-century concrete tiles with kneelers at the south end and a brick chimney at the north. The house has two storeys and two bays. The entrance includes a panelled door with a rectangular fanlight in a stone surround. There is a single sash window in a stone surround on each floor to the right, with the first-floor window having 16 panes.

Local climate

81, Main 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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