4, Main Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1974. Commercial. 2 related planning applications.
4, Main Street
- WRENN ID
- quartered-stronghold-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 July 1974
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 4, Main Street, Cockermouth
- OS grid reference
- NY 122 307
- Coordinates
- 54.66393, -3.36256
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 4 on Main Street is a 19th-century building constructed from ashlar stone, featuring a rusticated ground floor. It stands three storeys tall and is adorned with stone bands and a cornice. The centre of the building has a clock turret that is corbelled out, with the corners cut away and decorated with pilasters. The entrance consists of a narrow door topped by a round-headed fanlight that is delicately traceried. To the left, there is a modern shop front, while to the right is an Ionic doorway with two columns in antis and a cornice. The ground floor includes two 2-light windows with round lights, and the first floor has three 12-paned sash windows set in moulded architraves with cornices on consoles. The top floor features three plain sash windows. Additionally, there are two sash windows on each floor above the shop. No 4 is part of a group with Nos 2 and 4 and Nos 12 to 28 (even).
Local climate
4, 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 1995
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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