4,6, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1974. Commercial.

4,6, Market Place

WRENN ID
fallow-banister-meadow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 July 1974
Type
Commercial
Address
4,6, Market Place, Cockermouth
OS grid reference
NY 123 307
Coordinates
54.66411, -3.36
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos 4 and 6 Market Place is a late 18th-century building constructed of stuccoed stone with a slate roof and three storeys. It features a doorway adorned with a cornice and pediment, as well as two 19th-century shop fronts. Each upper floor has six sash windows set in moulded stone frames, and the building is accented by quoins. This building is part of a group with other listed buildings in Market Place, including Kirkgate Corner and St Helen's Street.

Local climate

4,6, Market Place 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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