Property Adjoining East End of Blackstock's Baker's Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1984. Shop, house.
Property Adjoining East End of Blackstock's Baker's Shop
- WRENN ID
- night-arch-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1984
- Type
- Shop, house
- OS grid reference
- NY 718 464
- Coordinates
- 54.81232, -2.43921
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, located at the east end of Blackstock's baker's shop in Alston, is a shop with a house above, dating from the mid-18th century with later alterations. It is constructed from coursed, squared rubble and features a graduated stone-flagged roof with a stone chimney at the west end. The front is three stories high and has two bays. The shop area includes a part-glazed door on the left and a 19th-century window with fluted uprights on the right. Access to the house is via steps with wrought-iron scrollwork and handrails, leading to a panelled door at the first-floor level. There is a single sash window to the right of the door and two additional sash windows above.
Local climate
Property Adjoining East End of Blackstock's Baker's Shop sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 75 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 53 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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