Local Government Offices is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 December 1973. Government office.
Local Government Offices
- WRENN ID
- tall-chamber-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 December 1973
- Type
- Government office
- Address
- Local Government Offices, Market Place, Cleator Moor
- OS grid reference
- NY 019 150
- Coordinates
- 54.52122, -3.51628
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Local Government Offices, which also include Public Offices and a Market Hall facing High Street, were built in 1879, while the Free Library facing Jacktrees Road was established in 1894. The building is constructed of coursed, squared rubble set on a chamfered plinth, with rough-dressed stone except for the architraves and carved details. It features string courses and an eaves cornice, with pilasters that end in an eaves band. The hipped roof is covered with graduated slate and has corniced stone chimneys and a moulded cast-iron gutter.
The structure is symmetrical and consists of a single tall storey with cellars, arranged in five bays. There are dog-leg steps leading up to a central panelled door, which has a semicircular fanlight in an architrave with a diapered soffit, and a cast-iron lamp bracket above. The doorcase is flanked by polished granite columns that support a pediment. On either side of the door, there are two tall sash windows in architraves, with a panel below the sill; the cellar features blocked two-light mullioned windows. The Free Library has a similar construction and design but is less decorative, with "FREE LIBRARY" carved in sans-serif on the frieze.
Local climate
Local Government Offices sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,570 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 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% 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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