COCKERMOUTH CASTLE (UNINHABITED PARTS)

COCKERMOUTH CASTLE (UNINHABITED PARTS), CASTLEGATE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1144724
Date first listed:: 28-Aug-1951
List Entry Name:: COCKERMOUTH CASTLE (UNINHABITED PARTS)
Statutory Address:: COCKERMOUTH CASTLE (UNINHABITED PARTS), CASTLEGATE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1144724
Date first listed:: 28-Aug-1951
List Entry Name:: COCKERMOUTH CASTLE (UNINHABITED PARTS)
Statutory Address 1:: COCKERMOUTH CASTLE (UNINHABITED PARTS), CASTLEGATE

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

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:: COCKERMOUTH CASTLE (UNINHABITED PARTS), CASTLEGATE

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 12212 30882

Details

1.

5161 CASTLEGATE Cockermouth Castle (uninhabited parts)

NY 1230 1/4A 28.8.51.

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2. Ancient Monument (Scheduled). The site is on a promonotory between the Rivers Cocker and Derwent, and there has been a castle since before 1221. The Hall, 1360, Flag Tower 1387, Gatehouse rebuilt circa 1400. Full curtain walls and 2 wards. Masonry in good order externally. Ref. Curwen, "Castles", p, 127. An important building in a fine setting.

The inhabited parts of Cockermouth Castle form a group with the uninhabited parts

Listing NGR: NY1226830852

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 71651
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Curwen, J F , Castles and Fortified Towers of Cumberland and Westmorland, (1913), 127

Legal

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