29-35, ST HELENS STREET, 1-21, ST HELENS STREET, 23-27, ST HELENS STREET

1-21, ST HELENS STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1144723
Date first listed:
28-Aug-1951
List Entry Name:
29-35, ST HELENS STREET, 1-21, ST HELENS STREET, 23-27, ST HELENS STREET
Statutory Address:
1-21, ST HELENS STREET
1 to 21 St Helens Street, Cockermouth
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Date:
2002-04-15
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1144723
Date first listed:
28-Aug-1951
Date of most recent amendment:
04-Jun-1975
List Entry Name:
29-35, ST HELENS STREET, 1-21, ST HELENS STREET, 23-27, ST HELENS STREET
Statutory Address 1:
1-21, ST HELENS STREET
Statutory Address 2:
23-27, ST HELENS STREET
Statutory Address 3:
29-35, ST HELENS STREET

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
1-21, ST HELENS STREET
Statutory Address:
23-27, ST HELENS STREET
Statutory Address:
29-35, ST HELENS STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Cockermouth
National Grid Reference:
NY 12464 30703

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10/01/2013


NY 1230 1/91
5161
28.8.51


ST HELEN'S STREET (South Side)
Nos 1 to 21 (odd)
Nos 23 to 27 (odd)
Nos 29 to 35 (odd)


(Formerly listed as Nos 1 to 35 (odd))


GV
II


Continuous row of varied properties, Georgian, of various dates, 2 storeys, mostly
slate roofs and stone walls faced with various materials. Nos 1 and 3 have pantiles,
2 panelled doors, 2 sashes down, 4 up, No 3 with glazing bars. No 5 has modern
door, 2 sashes down with vertical glazing bars, 3 12-paned sashes up. Nos 7 and
9 have 2 doors, 2 12-paned sashes and a bow window with fluted pilaster jambs and
cornice (former shop), and 5 12-paned sashes up. Nos 11 and 11a have panelled
door in moulded stone frame with cornice and pediment, 2 sashes down, and a door
to passage (No 11a), 4 sashes up in moulded frames with a continuous sill band
on brackets, and quoins. No 13 has centre door, 2 sashes down (one double) and
3 up in plain stone frames. No 15 has Tuscan pilaster strips, panelled door in
Tuscan pilastered doorcase with cornice, 2 sashes down and 3 up in moulded frames
with sills on brackets. No 17 (Grey Goat Inn) is lower in proportion, boarded
door to yard on left, with a 2-light stone mullioned window above it; portion to
right has centre doorway with Tuscan pilaster-jambs, cornice, curved pediment,
2 sashes down, 3 up, all in moulded stone frames. Nos 19 and 21 have 3 storeys,
a 4-centred arched carriage entry (to No 19), panelled door in round arch with
fanlight, keystone and moulded caps, a sash and former shop window down, 3 sashes
each upper floor with glazing bars removed, all in plain stone frames. No 23 (Manor
House) has quoins, pantiles, 3 storeys, centre panelled door in V-jointed architrave,
2 16-paned sashes down, 3 12-paned sashes on 1st floor and 3 small-paned horizontal
sliding sashes under eaves. No 25 (Brougham House) has pantiles, doorway, 3 sashes
down and 4 up all in moulded stone frames. No 27 (formerly part of Brougham House)
has moulded doorway, former shop window (now house), and a sash window above in
moulded frame, quoins. No 29 has 2 doors (one to yard), 2 sashes down and 3 up,
all with vertical glazing bars. Nos 31, 33, 35 have 2 original bow windows, and
small-paned sashes.

Nos 1 to 35 (odd) forms a group.


Listing NGR: NY1246430703

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
71742
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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