Wordsworth House and Garden and Forecourt Walling, and Gate Piers to Wordsworth House is a Grade I listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1951. A C18 House. 8 related planning applications.
Wordsworth House and Garden and Forecourt Walling, and Gate Piers to Wordsworth House
- WRENN ID
- endless-crypt-birch
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wordsworth House and Garden and Forecourt Walling, and Gate Piers to Wordsworth House, Main Street, Cockermouth, CA13 9RX
- OS grid reference
- NY 118 307
- Coordinates
- 54.66365, -3.36804
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wordsworth House is a mid-18th century building located on Main Street, where the poet William Wordsworth was born in 1770. The house is open to the public and features two storeys constructed of stone, with projecting stone quoins that have V joints. The entrance includes an eight-panelled door that opens in two halves, flanked by two Doric columns on pedestals, supporting a moulded entablature. Above the entrance, there are nine sash windows with moulded stone dressings and glazing bars. In front of the house, there is a small garden enclosed by stone walling, along with gate piers made of stone that have moulded caps and ornamentation. Wordsworth House is part of a group that includes Nos 2 and 4, The Trout Hotel, and Grecian Villa on Crown Street.
Local climate
Wordsworth House and Garden and Forecourt Walling, and Gate Piers to Wordsworth 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 — 8 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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