30,30a, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1974. Commercial building.
30,30a, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-frieze-river
- 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 building
- Address
- 30,30a, Market Place, Cockermouth
- OS grid reference
- NY 122 307
- Coordinates
- 54.66429, -3.36156
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 30 and 30A Market Place is an 18th-century building that stands three storeys tall and is finished with cement render and a slate roof. The shop front features four Ionic pilasters and modern windows. Each of the upper floors has five windows that include glazing bars, are set within reveals, and are adorned with moulded stone dressings. This building is part of a group of listed buildings in Market Place, which includes Kirkgate Corner and the surrounding properties on St Helen's Street and Castlegate.
Local climate
30,30a, 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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