52, Roper Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1989. House, shop.
52, Roper Street
- WRENN ID
- seventh-tin-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1989
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- 52, Roper Street, Whitehaven
- OS grid reference
- NX 972 180
- Coordinates
- 54.54704, -3.58951
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 52 Roper Street is a house with a shop, dating from the early 18th century and remodelled in the 19th century. It is built of rendered sandstone and has a slate roof. The building has a double depth plan with lateral stairs and stands three storeys high. It features a regular three-window range, with all windows having 2-pane sashes set in reveals with raised stone surrounds. The shopfront, dating from around 1900, includes a moulded cornice, side doorways, and a 2-light plate glass window in between. At the rear, the windows also have stone surrounds and brick relieving arches above the lintels.
Local climate
52, 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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