Nos. 11 and 13 and Rear Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1951. House, cottage/workshop. 6 related planning applications.

Nos. 11 and 13 and Rear Cottage

WRENN ID
slow-granite-moth
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 June 1951
Type
House, cottage/workshop
Address
Nos. 11 and 13 and Rear Cottage, Curwen Street, Workington, CA14 4BD
OS grid reference
NY 005 286
Coordinates
54.6429, -3.54187
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 11 and 13 and the rear cottage in Workington are two houses and a cottage/workshop that together form one property, dating from the late 18th century. The buildings feature incised cement render with an eaves cornice and V-jointed quoins set on a moulded plinth. They have a graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and kneelers, along with cement-rendered chimney stacks. The cottage/workshop has painted roughcast walls and a battlemented parapet, topped with a hipped graduated greenslate roof and brick chimney stacks on ashlar bases.

The property is two storeys high and consists of five bays, with an extension behind Nos. 7 and 9 to the left and a single-storey, two-bay cottage/workshop at the rear. A central through archway features double wrought-iron gates beneath an interlace wooden overlight, all within a round-arched quoined surround. The sash windows are framed in painted stone architraves, and there is a side doorway leading from the passage to No. 13. The rear doorways originally had 19th-century Tuscan doorcases, which have since been replaced with 20th-century replicas.

Inside, there is an upper-floor panelled room above the archway, and the room to the left boasts a late 18th-century moulded plaster ceiling. Additionally, a lead pump in the rear ground-floor kitchen is marked with the initials ITM and the date 1792. The cottage/workshop also features sash windows with intersecting glazing bars.

Local climate

Nos. 11 and 13 and Rear Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,540 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 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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