23, 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 building.

23, Devonshire Street

WRENN ID
calm-rafter-wind
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 building
Address
23, Devonshire Street, Penrith, CA11 7SU
OS grid reference
NY 515 301
Coordinates
54.66422, -2.75215
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 23 on Devonshire Street is an 18th-century building that adjoins the George Hotel. It is constructed of painted red sandstone with quoins and stands three storeys tall. The building features a small modern shop front and a shouldered archway leading to a yard on the right. On each upper floor, there are four sash windows set within plain stone architraves.

Local climate

23, 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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