Pack Horse House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1974. House.
Pack Horse House
- WRENN ID
- shifting-rood-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 July 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Pack Horse House, Main Street, Cockermouth
- OS grid reference
- NY 121 306
- Coordinates
- 54.66358, -3.36419
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pack Horse House, formerly known as The Packhorse Public House, is a 2-storey building located on the south side of Main Street. The structure is stuccoed over stone, features quoins, and has a slate roof. The building has mostly modern shop fronts, with 11 sash windows above, most of which are set in moulded stone frames. Additionally, there is an ornamented iron lamp bracket on No 37. This building is part of a group of listed buildings on the south side of Main Street.
Local climate
Pack Horse 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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