1-8, Fern Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1974. House. 12 related planning applications.
1-8, Fern Bank
- WRENN ID
- waning-clay-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 July 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- 1-8, Fern Bank, Cockermouth
- OS grid reference
- NY 119 302
- Coordinates
- 54.66005, -3.36682
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a terrace of eight villas, built in the second half of the 19th century and situated in a prominent location at the southern entrance to town. The houses are generally two stories high. The end houses have gabled ends facing the road, each featuring a round-headed window in the gable. The remaining houses have gabled dormers on the roof. Each villa has a panelled front door with a segmental fanlight, set within a stone doorcase with a cornice supported by brackets. A three-sided bay window is fitted with a moulded cornice, and the sash windows are flanked by colonnets. The upper floor has a single sash window above the door and a double sash window above the bay, both with cornices on brackets. A moulded cornice runs along the top of the facade, supported by large, ornamented brackets. Bargeboards adorn the gables. The facade is cemented and uniformly painted white.
Local climate
1-8, Fern Bank 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 12 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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