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

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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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