Bowling Green House in Grounds of Cockermouth Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1951. Garden house.

Bowling Green House in Grounds of Cockermouth Castle

WRENN ID
patient-foundation-amber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 August 1951
Type
Garden house
Address
Bowling Green House in Grounds of Cockermouth Castle, Castlegate
OS grid reference
NY 123 308
Coordinates
54.6655, -3.36002
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bowling Green House, located in the grounds of Cockermouth Castle, is an early 18th-century garden house. It is octagonal in shape and sits on a square platform, constructed of brick with stone quoins and dressings. The house features a conical slate roof and a stone moulded cornice. On the south side, there is a door adorned with a curved open pediment and an urn, accessible by a flight of steps. There is a window on each of the other sides, each framed with stone architraves. The inhabited parts of Cockermouth Castle are grouped with the uninhabited sections.

Local climate

Bowling Green House in Grounds of Cockermouth Castle 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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