38, Kirkgate is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1974. Commercial.

38, Kirkgate

WRENN ID
outer-screen-thistle
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
38, Kirkgate, Cockermouth
OS grid reference
NY 124 305
Coordinates
54.66274, -3.35941
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

38 Kirkgate is an early 19th-century building that stands two storeys high and features scored stucco with a slate roof. The corner shop, formerly known as No 36, has an angled doorway and two small shop windows, with sash windows above set in stone architraves. The left-hand return wall includes a warehouse door and a pulley above it. No 38 is located at the rear, adjacent to the churchyard, and is similar in style, with an iron lampholder positioned at the angle next to the churchyard footpath. The area in front has cobbles and forms a small square in front of the garden of Kirkgate House. This building is part of a group that includes Nos 13, 17 to 25 (odd), 31 to 55 (odd), 38, 46 to 86 (even), along with No 47A and Kirkgate House.

Local climate

38, Kirkgate 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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