49,51, Main Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1974. House. 5 related planning applications.
49,51, Main Street
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-garret-lichen
- 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
- 49,51, Main Street, Cockermouth, CA13 9JS
- OS grid reference
- NY 120 306
- Coordinates
- 54.66348, -3.36548
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a two-storey building located on the South Side of Main Street. It was likely originally a single house, though now divided. The exterior is stuccoed and has a slate roof, with two horizontal bands of stone at the sill levels. Two round-arched entrances are centrally positioned, one providing access to a rear yard. Two modern shop fronts are present. The first floor has five sash windows, each set within a moulded stone architrave and cornice. The top floor features five plain sash windows. The listed buildings on the South Side of Main Street form a group.
Local climate
49,51, Main Street 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 — 2 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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