Town Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1974. Town hall. 7 related planning applications.
Town Hall
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-column-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 July 1974
- Type
- Town hall
- Address
- Town Hall, Market Street, Cockermouth, CA13 9NP
- OS grid reference
- NY 122 306
- Coordinates
- 54.66317, -3.36116
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Town Hall, built around 1840, was originally a Wesleyan Chapel and was converted for Town Hall use in 1934. The building is stuccoed and features a low-pitched roof behind parapets. It has two storeys with pilasters that extend the full height, a crude dentilled cornice, and acroteria. The entrance is marked by two Greek Doric fluted columns supporting a moulded entablature that includes guttae but lacks triglyphs or metopes. There are three round-headed windows that are recessed and have full glazing bars. The side facades rise to three storeys.
Local climate
Town Hall 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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