Kirkgate Corner is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1974. House. 1 related planning application.
Kirkgate Corner
- WRENN ID
- lost-hearth-soot
- 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
- Kirkgate Corner, St Helens Street, Cockermouth, CA13 9HX
- OS grid reference
- NY 123 307
- Coordinates
- 54.66388, -3.35971
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kirkgate Corner is a building dated 1755, located on St Helen's Street. It has three storeys and features heavy quoins. The ground floor includes a door and a former shop window, which has been converted into a house. There are two sash windows on the first floor and one in the top of the gable, all set in moulded stone frames. A heart-shaped stone displays the date on the first floor. The Kirkgate facade has a panelled door that is accessed by four steps and is inset into the thickness of the wall. There is also a cellar door that is half below pavement level, a small-paned cellar window at ground level, and two sash windows on each upper floor. Kirkgate Corner is part of a group of listed buildings in Market Place.
Local climate
Kirkgate Corner 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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