Kirkby House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1951. House. 1 related planning application.
Kirkby House
- WRENN ID
- patient-cupola-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Kirkby House, 4, Crown Street, Cockermouth, CA13 0EH
- OS grid reference
- NY 118 306
- Coordinates
- 54.66348, -3.36851
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kirkby House is an early 19th-century building located on Crown Street. It is constructed of roughcast with a slate roof and stands two storeys high. The building features a stone band and plinth, and the entrance consists of a panelled door with a traceried fanlight, accessed by three steps and set within a stone frame. There are two windows to the left and one to the right on the ground floor, with four windows above, all of which are 12-paned sashes in plain stone frames. The upper sills of the windows rest on a stone band, and there is a banded cornice at the eaves. Kirkby House is part of a group that includes Nos 2 and 4, the Trout Hotel, and Grecian Villa, alongside Wordsworth House on Main Street.
Local climate
Kirkby House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,420 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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