College Chambers is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 1949. Chambers.
College Chambers
- WRENN ID
- frozen-lead-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1949
- Type
- Chambers
- Address
- College Chambers, 6, College Street, Whitehaven
- OS grid reference
- NX 974 182
- Coordinates
- 54.54878, -3.58757
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
College Chambers is a building located on the corner of College Street and Church Street, dating from the 18th century. It stands three storeys tall with a basement and an attic. The exterior features scored stucco with rusticated quoins at the outer corner. The elevation facing College Street includes a stone doorway accessed by four steps, topped with a pediment supported by console brackets, along with irregularly placed windows. The Church Street elevation has three 12-paned sash windows on each of the three floors, and three half-height 6-pane sash windows at the basement level.
Local climate
College Chambers 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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