16,17, Queen Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. House.
16,17, Queen Street
- WRENN ID
- shifting-merlon-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- 16,17, Queen Street, Whitehaven
- OS grid reference
- NX 973 179
- Coordinates
- 54.54677, -3.58898
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 16 and 17 Queen Street are mid-18th century buildings featuring scored stucco and standing three storeys tall. Number 16 has two panelled doors, one 16-paned sash window on the lower two storeys, and one 12-paned sash window on the top storey. Number 17, which is the return side of No 44 Roper Street, has a central door, two 12-paned sash windows on the ground floor, three on the first floor, and three 9-paned sash windows on the top floor.
Local climate
16,17, Queen 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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