WORDSWORTH HOUSE AND GARDEN AND FORECOURT WALLING, AND GATE PIERS TO WORDSWORTH HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1327088
Date first listed:: 28-Aug-1951
List Entry Name:: WORDSWORTH HOUSE AND GARDEN AND FORECOURT WALLING, AND GATE PIERS TO WORDSWORTH HOUSE

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Date:: 2002-03-14
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1327088
Date first listed:: 28-Aug-1951
List Entry Name:: WORDSWORTH HOUSE AND GARDEN AND FORECOURT WALLING, AND GATE PIERS TO WORDSWORTH HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:
Statutory Address 2:: WORDSWORTH HOUSE AND GARDEN AND FORECOURT WALLING, AND GATE PIERS TO WORDSWORTH HOUSE, MAIN STREET

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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Location

Statutory Address:
Statutory Address:: WORDSWORTH HOUSE AND GARDEN AND FORECOURT WALLING, AND GATE PIERS TO WORDSWORTH HOUSE, MAIN 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:: NY1185630700

Details

1.

5161 MAIN STREET (North Side) Wordsworth House. Garden and forecourt walling, and gate piers to Wordsworth House.

NY 1130 2/60 28.8.51.

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2. Mid C18 house, where William Wordsworth was born in 1770. Open to the public. 2 storeys, stone, projecting stone quoins with V joints. Entrance has 8-panelled door in 2 halves, and 2 Doric columns on pedestals with moulded entablature. 9 sash windows above with moulded stone dressings, and glazing bars. Small garden in front with stone walling, and gate piers of stone with moulded caps and ornament.

Wordsworth House forms a group with Nos 2 and 4, The Trout Hotel and Grecian Villa, Crown Street.

Listing NGR: NY1185630700

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Legacy System number:: 71716
Legacy System:: LBS

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