4 Cartmell Shepherd Solicitors and 6 Cockermouth Art and Craft Main Street, Cockermouth
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Description
"No.8 is in this building and probably above the shop that is no.6. The central door had 6 on it before 2010 so it is not clear if that access the shop or no.8. The whole building is Grade II Listed as no.4. The clock appears to be working and correct time at time of my photo. Bell Park Kerridge Ltd had offices at no.4 but by August 2018 Cartmell Shepherd had moved in. I also found Gibbons & Co. listed here in 2003. Pevsner tells us this is a former Savings Bank built in 1846. The 1847 History and Gazetteer list only two banks in Main Street, Cumberland Union Banking Co. at 79 and Savings' Bank at 78 and the latter is only open 'Sat. from 6 to 7 o'clock' and by 1906 it was also opening Mondays '12 to 1'. In the history, it tells us "The Savings' Bank is a provident institution established here in 1818, and now occupying a neat building near the Court House, erected in 1846". It seems a substantial building for a bank that opens for an hour a week, was it just occupying part of the building? It was built in 1829 on the site of the Horse and Harness reputedly as the Mechanics Institute library and newsroom. However the 1847 History and Gazetteer tells us "The old Moot Hall and the wooden Shambles, being a great nuisance to the place, were taken down in 1829, and in the same year the present convenient Court-house, or Town-hall, Bank, and News Room, were erected by subscription, at a cost of £1300. raised in shares of £26. each, exclusive of the materials of the old Moot Hall, which were given by the earl of Egremont. They form one handsome range of white freestone buildings, on the west side of Cocker bridge, which was built, in 1828". As you see this is a direct contradiction of its own text on the Savings’ Bank. In 1987 no.6 had planning to convert the first floor to an office and second floor to a flat (presumably no.8) and in 1993 retrospective change of use of office accommodation to self-contained flat. In 2006 no.6 had a change of use on the ground floor from fruit & veg shop to a mortgage shop but I don't see any changes after that and Cockermouth Art and Craft were here in May 2009." Photo by Jo and Steve Turner, 2023. -
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Further information
Link: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7534565
Resource type: Image
Added by: Simon Cotterill
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Picture Taken: 2023-06-11 -
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