1, Dorcas Avenue is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1976. House.
1, Dorcas Avenue
- WRENN ID
- rough-thatch-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1976
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- SD 210 706
- Coordinates
- 54.12531, -3.20984
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
1 Dorcas Avenue is a small house located in Barrow-in-Furness, dating from around 1800. It is constructed from cement-rendered sandstone and features a graduated slate roof. The building has two storeys and two bays. The central entrance consists of a panelled door set beneath a segmental arch, which is accompanied by a 20th-century glazed porch. There are projecting sills beneath the 4-pane casements, which are also positioned under segmental arches. The house has end stacks. Inside, the ground-floor rooms include fielded-panel cupboards.
Local climate
1, Dorcas Avenue sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,670 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 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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