14-28, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1951. Commercial. 9 related planning applications.
14-28, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- gentle-merlon-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1951
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 14-28, Market Place, Cockermouth
- OS grid reference
- NY 123 307
- Coordinates
- 54.66427, -3.3608
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a row of twelve three-storey properties situated on the north side of Market Place. The buildings date from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They are constructed of stone, with some areas stuccoed and cemented, and feature quoins and slate roofs. Number 16 has a balustraded parapet. The Ship Inn, at number 14, has a decorative dentil cornice above the first floor and at eaves level. The majority of the windows are sash windows set in moulded stone frames. The premises previously occupied by Castle Studios, likely at number 22, is said to contain a good staircase. The listed buildings form a group with those on Kirkgate Corner, St Helens Street, numbers 30 and 30A Market Place, and numbers 2 to 10 (even) and 1 to 13 (odd) Castlegate.
Local climate
14-28, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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