5 and 6, Devonshire Street is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1983. Commercial. 1 related planning application.
5 and 6, Devonshire Street
- WRENN ID
- veiled-marble-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1983
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 5 and 6, Devonshire Street, Penrith, CA11 7SR
- OS grid reference
- NY 515 301
- Coordinates
- 54.6642, -2.75282
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 5 and 6 on Devonshire Street are late 19th-century buildings featuring an early 20th-century Edwardian shop front. They stand three storeys tall and are constructed of red sandstone ashlar with blocked eaves and a slate roof. The top floor has four windows framed by stone architraves and a band at sill level. The first floor features a glazed wall with a central pilaster, a cornice, and two large three-light windows with iron mullions, capitals, bases, and curved heads. There are side pilasters above the ground and first floors. The ground floor includes two doors and large shop windows with iron mullions, along with a yard entry to the right. These buildings are noted for their group value.
Local climate
5 and 6, Devonshire Street sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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