1, King Street is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1972. A C19 Shop with accommodation. 1 related planning application.
1, King Street
- WRENN ID
- bitter-chapel-marsh
- 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
- Shop with accommodation
- Address
- 1, King Street, Ulverston, LA12 7DY
- OS grid reference
- SD 285 783
- Coordinates
- 54.19609, -3.09639
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 1 King Street is a shop with accommodation above, built around 1840, likely by George Webster. The building features limestone ashlar and roughcast with slate roofs and stands three tall storeys plus an attic. It occupies a corner site with two main facades, each having two bays. The southern facade faces the Market Place, while the eastern facade faces King Street.
On the ground floor, both facades have ashlar dressings and a timber shop front with a central doorway flanked by pilasters and a fascia. The upper storeys are adorned with glazing bar sashes set in narrow painted surrounds with projecting sills. Each gable, designed as a pediment with projecting verges and plain barge-boards, includes a frieze decorated with laurel garlands. At the top of each gable is an ashlar chimney cap with a cornice. An oculus in the south gable provides light to the attic.
The corner where the two facades meet is recessed and curved, featuring rusticated stonework on the ground floor. The King Street facade has an additional bay on the right, which includes a tall ground-floor window, a glazing bar sash on the second floor, and a 20th-century tilting window with glazing bars on the first floor. The roof slope includes an attic dormer, and there is a chimney on the right side.
Local climate
1, King 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2003
- 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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