56, Market Street is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1972. Commercial.
56, Market Street
- WRENN ID
- dusk-roof-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1972
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 56, Market Street, Ulverston
- OS grid reference
- SD 287 783
- Coordinates
- 54.19575, -3.09381
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 56 Market Street is a shop with accommodation above, likely built in the early 19th century. The building features painted render and a slate roof, standing three storeys tall with a one-window range. The ground floor consists of a shop front that includes timber pilasters, a fascia, and a cornice. The upper windows are positioned slightly to the right and have narrow painted surrounds, with the first-floor window featuring a segmental head. These upper windows have 20th-century casements that imitate glazing bar sashes. The building also has chimneys at each end.
Local climate
56, Market Street sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,650 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 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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