Castlegate House is a Grade II* listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1951. A C18 House. 6 related planning applications.

Castlegate House

WRENN ID
waiting-minaret-khaki
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 August 1951
Type
House
Address
Castlegate House, Cockermouth, CA13 9HA
OS grid reference
NY 123 308
Coordinates
54.66499, -3.36052
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Castlegate House is a mid-18th century detached house located on the east side of Castlegate. It features painted stucco with the lower storey in V-jointed ashlar, also painted. The building has a modillioned cornice and a slate roof, and it stands two storeys tall. The entrance is adorned with Doric pilasters, which support blocked entablatures and a pedimented modillioned cornice. The entrance includes a six-panelled door and a fanlight with a semi-circular head and curved interlaced glazing bars. On the ground floor, there are two 12-paned sash windows, and three more sash windows are located above, all set within reveals and externally fitted with dummy wood louvred shutters. This is a very good house that faces the entrance to the Castle.

Local climate

Castlegate 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
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
  • Related listed building consents — 6 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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