Workington is a civil parish and a town in the Cumberlandunitary authority area of Cumbria, England. It contains 58 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, seven are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. Workington is a port, and its industries in the past have been based on coal mining and steel making. There is a great variety in types of listed buildings. Most of them are houses and associated structures and shops. They also include churches, a fortified house now a ruin, a museum and theatre, public houses, hotels, clubs, a school, a bridge, memorials, and a model farm. There are also remaining industrial buildings.
The oldest surviving part of the church is the Norman tower. The rest of the church and the upper part of the tower were rebuilt in 1770–72. The church was damaged by fire in 1887 and again in 1994, and the interior was remodelled on both occasions. It is built in calciferous sandstone and pink sandstone, and has a green slate roof with copedgables and cross finials. The church consists of a nave with aisles, a short chancel, a polygonal north vestry, and a west tower. The tower has a west doorway, a clock face on the west side, and a battlementedparapet with crocketedpinnacles. There are also battlemented parapets and crocketed pinnacles on the aisles.[2][3]
A fortified tower house, now in ruins. Alterations and additions were made in the 15th and 16th centuries, followed by further alterations in 1783–89 by John Carr. It is built in calciferous sandstone and red sandstone, and is without a roof. Its features include a three-storey tower, a two-storey hall range, a three-storey garderobe turret, a cantedbay window, a kitchen range with an angle turret, and a gatehouse, all enclosing a courtyard. The tower contains loops, a spiral staircase, and walls with murals.[4][5]
Originally a rectory, the house has been extended in the 19th and 20th centuries, and used as a residential home. It has the plan of a hall with cross wings, it has thick roughcast walls and a green slate roof. There are two storeys, and a central recessed block with two bays flanked by gabled wings. The doorway has a pointed chamfered arch with a hood mould, and the windows are mullioned with moulded sills and hood moulds. The chimney stacks on the sides are large and stepped. Inside the house is a blocked inglenook.[6][7]
A roughcast house that has a slate roof with copedgables. There are three storeys and three bays. On the front is a gabled porch and a doorway that has a chamfered surround and an oval fanlight, both with hood moulds. The windows are cross-mullioned with hood moulds, and those in the top floor are blocked.[8]
A roughcast house that has a green slate roof with copedgables and ball finials. There are two storeys and five double-span bays. The doorway has a pediment, and the windows are casements in stone surrounds. On the right side is an external stepped chimney stack.[9]
The wall encloses one side of the front garden. It is a low rubble wall with flat coping. There are two square ashlarpiers that have broad caps and ball finials.[10]
The headstone from a grave, in calciferous sandstone and consisting of an inscribed slab with a rounded top. Joseph Thompson was buried at his request on Scaw Moor, and when this was enclosed, the headstone was moved to its present site.[11]
Originally a rectory, it is a rendered private house with a green slate roof. The house has two storeys and four bays, with a rear extension and L-shaped former stables, giving a U-shaped plan. There are two doorways in stone surrounds, one with a fanlight, and the windows are sashes also in stone surrounds. In the former stables are a blocked carriage archway and casement windows.[12]
A roughcast house that has a green slate roof with a copedgable. There are two storeys and three bays, with a recessed bay to the left. The doorway has pilasters, a pediment, and a radial fanlight. The windows in the ground floor are sashes, and in the upper floor they are replacement casements, all in plain reveals. In the left bay is a doorway in a stone surround and a casement window.[16]
A row of three stuccoed houses with quoins. No 15A has a tiled roof, and the other roofs are in green slate. There are two storeys, No. 17 has one bay, and the other houses have two bays each. The doorways and sash windows have stone surrounds, and on the front of No. 15A is a sundial dated 1777.[17]
A stuccoed house with angle pilasters, an eavescornice, and a green slate roof. There are two storeys with cellars and an attic, and three bays with a further recessed bay to the right. The doorway has panelled reveals and a fanlight, and the sash windows have stone surrounds. In the left return is a round attic window.[18]
The house was extended in the early 19th century. It is rendered with angle pilasters, an eavescornice, and a green slate roof with copedgables. There are two storeys and three bays, with a higher single-bay extension to the right. The doorway and sash windows have stone surrounds.[20]
A house later used as an office in Portland Square, it is roughcast with a green slate roof. There are two storeys with attics, and four bays. The doorway and sash windows have stone surrounds, there is a blocked doorway with a segmental head, and at the rear is a bowed staircase window.[21]
Originally a farmhouse, it has been divided into a house and two cottages, and there is a barn at right angles to the rear. The house and cottages are stuccoed on a mouldedplinth, and have angle pilasters, an eavescornice, and a green slate roof with copedgables. There are two storeys, two double-span bays, and doors and sash windows in stone surrounds. The barn is in calciferous sandstone with a corrugated asbestos roof, and has a segmental cart entrance, flanking doorways, a loft doorway and ventilation slits.[24]
The hotel was extended in the early 19th century, it is roughcast on a chamferedplinth, and has quoins, an eavescornice, and a tile roof. There are three storeys and three bays, with a single-bay extension to the left, and a two-storey extension to the rear, giving an L-shaped plan. The doorway in the left return has a moulded doorcase with a radial fanlight. The windows on the front are sashes in architraves, and in the extension there is a mix of sash and casement windows.[25]
A pair of rendered houses with quoins, an eavescornice, and a roof partly tiled, partly in green slate, with a copedgable. There are three storeys, No. 9 has two bays, No. 7 has three bays and a single-bay extension to the left containing a through arch. The doorways and sash windows have stone surrounds, and above the door of No. 7 is a fanlight.[28]
A pair of houses divided into flats, roughcast on a stone plinth, with angle pilasters and a green slate roof with copedgables. They gave three storeys, one house has two bays and the other has three. The doorway, with a fanlight, and the sash windows have stone surrounds.[29]
A stuccoed hotel on a mouldedplinth, with angle pilasters and a green slate roof. The left part of the hotel has three storeys and three bays, and the right part has two storeys and four bays, all under a common roof. The doorway has a pilastered doorcase, a frieze with urns, and a fanlight. The windows are sashes, and on the right part are dormer windows.[30]
Originally an iron foundry, the building is in calciferous sandstone with quoins, and a green slate roof with copedgables. It has three storeys and two bays, with a two-storey, two-bay extension. There is a central projecting square chimney in calciferous sandstone at the base, and stepped in brick in the upper parts. The windows have arched heads.[22][31]
The buildings originated as stables for a model farm. The farmhouse is roughcast with a tile roof, and has two storeys, three bays, and a door and windows in stone surrounds. The barns are in calciferous sandstone and cobble, and have roofs partly of green slate, and partly of corrugated asbestos, and with the farmhouse form a U-shaped plan. The openings, some of which are blocked, include a segmental archway, doorways, loft doors, ventilation slits, and windows in stone surrounds. There are the remains of an external stone staircase.[32][33]
The granary was part of a model farm. It is in calciferous sandstone with quoins and a green slate roof. There are three storeys and nine bays. At the left end is a single-storey one-bay extension. Features include stone steps leading to loft doors on two levels, segmental-headed doorways converted into windows, louvred windows, and a cart doorway.[32][34]
The buildings form part of a model farm. They are in calciferous sandstone with roofs mainly of corrugated asbestos and some slate. The buildings consist of a five-storey windmill, a two-storey barn with single-storey extensions, and other farm buildings linked by a mock curtain wall containing a mock gatehouse with a segmental archway, all forming three sides of a courtyard. Features of the buildings include quoins, angle pilasters, and battlementedparapets. The floors and sails have been removed from the windmill.[32][35]
Originally a lock-up and later used for other purposes, it is in calciferous sandstone, and has a barrel vaulted roof. There is one storey and two bays. On the front are two doorways, one blocked, and there is another doorway on the left return. There are ventilation slits in both returns.[36]
A pair of houses; No. 28 is stuccoed and No. 30 is roughcast with angle pilasters. Both houses have an eavescornice and a green slate roof. They have two storeys and each house has three bays. The doorways have pilastered doorcases and radial fanlights, and the windows are sashes with stone surrounds.[39]
A house and a shop on a corner site with Nook Street, roughcast with a green slate roof. There are two storeys with attics, and each building has two bays. The house, on Jane Street, has a doorway with a fanlight, and sash windows, all in stone surrounds. The shop has a corner doorway with a fanlight, and on each side are shop bow windows in moulded wooden surrounds. The other windows are sashes, and there is a loading door in Jane Street.[40]
A pair of stuccoed houses on a corner site, with quoins and green slate roofs with a copedgable. They have two storeys with attics, and each house has three bays. The doorways and sash windows have stone surrounds, the doors have fanlights, and the doorway of No. 2 Cavendish Street has a pediment.[41]
A house, with two shops facing Curwen Street, all stuccoed. The house has an eavescornice, quoins, and a green slate roof with copedgables. They are all in two storeys, the house has three bays and an extension wall to the right. It has a doorway in an architrave with a pediment on console brackets, and a fanlight. The windows are sashes with stone surrounds. The shops have shop fronts and doors with pilastered surrounds.[42]
A house, later divided into two dwellings, stuccoed with a green slate roof. There are two storeys and five bays, with a single-storey extension at the rear. It has a polygonal pilastered porch, and sash windows in plain reveals.[44]
A priest's house, roughcast, with angle pilasters and a green slate roof. It has two storeys, six bays, a door with a radial fanlight, and sash windows, all in stone surrounds. There is also a tall round-headed window.[47]
A social club, stuccoed on a chamferedplinth, with angle pilasters and an eavescornice, and a green slate roof with copedgables. It has two storeys and five bays, with later extensions at the rear, and a lower two-storey five-bay wing to the left. The doorway has a pilastered surround with a false keystone and a radial fanlight, and the windows are sashes in stone surrounds. At the rear of the extension are blind windows with imposts, and doors and windows with carved-head keystones.[22][48]
The chimney was built for a coal mine, now disused. It is in calciferous sandstone, and consists of a round chimney on a square base with round brick arches. The chimney has a battlementedparapet below its neck.[51][52]
The engine house is in calciferous sandstone and red sandstone on a rectangular plinth, and has a battlementedparapet, a bracketed cornice, a three-storey two-bay oval tower and a higher circular chimney. The doorways and windows are in architraves, and the chimney has brick-arched stoke holes at the base, and a battlemented parapet below its neck.[51][53]
Originally the lodge to Trades Hall, later used for other purposes, it is in stone on a mouldedplinth, with angle pilasters, an eavescornice, a string course, a parapet, and a hipped green slate roof. The building is in a single storey and has two bays. The windows are sashes with segmental-arched surrounds containing carved keystones. In the left return is a round-arched doorway with a pilastered surround and a carved keystone.[55]
The tower and the adjoining maltings are rendered. The tower has six storeys and two bays, it has a battlementedparapet, and a hippedslate roof, and there is a battlemented chimney stack. In the centre of each storey is a boarded doorway, and in the top storey is a wooden hoist house; these are flanked by windows with quoined surrounds. The maltings has three storeys, and four bays to the left and two to the right; it contains windows similar to those in the tower. The building has been converted into flats.[22][56]
The warehouse is stuccoed with a hipped green slate roof on which are two lead-domed cupolas surmounted by weathervanes. There are two storeys and four bays. The warehouse contains a blocked segmental archway, and in the upper floor are a loft door and a window with stone surrounds and false keystones.[58]
The school is in red sandstone on a chamferedplinth with detailing in buff sandstone, and with Welsh slate roofs and clay ridge tiles. It has an E-shaped plan with three gabled wings, and is in a single storey. There are two ached entrances in the angles of the outer wings. The windows are 20th-century casements in the original stone surrounds.[59]
The memorial commemorates a local physician, and is in polished Dalbeattiegranite. It is 23 feet (7.0 m) high and consists of an obelisk 13 feet (4.0 m) high on a tapered pedestal standing on a stepped base. At the base are inscribed quotations in English and in Latin. The memorial is surrounded by railings.[22][62]
Originally a Carnegie library, it has been converted into an arts centre and theatre. It is built in calciferous sandstone on a red sandstoneplinth, and has red sandstone quoins, an eavescornice with modillions, and a green slate roof. There is a two-storey, seven-bay central block, flanked by single-storey four-bay wings, and a two-storey theatre at the left forming an L-shaped plan. The central bay contains a doorway in an architrave with a hood mould on consoles, and at the top is a segmental pediment with a Latin inscription. The windows are sashes in architraves, those in the lower floor of the central block having arched heads and false keystones.[22][64]
A stuccoed house in a terrace on a chamferedplinth, with a string course, angle pilasters, a modillionedeaves, and a green slate roof. There are two storeys with attics, and two bays. The doorway has pilasters, a pediment, and a fanlight containing Art Nouveau stained glass. There is a smaller passage doorway, also with a pediment. Between them is a two-storey bay window, and above the door is a two-light windows, all with stained glass in the upper panels. In the roof are two dormers with pilasters and pediments.[66]
The war memorial consists of a cenotaph in Shapgranite that was designed by Robert Lorimer. It is about 30 feet (9.1 m) high and stands on a stepped base. On each side is an alcove, round-headed on two sides and circular on the other. The alcoves contain bronze panels depicting soldiers on two sides and the town's industries on the other sides. Above the alcoves are carvings, and above these the cenotaph reduces in size and is surmounted by a granite lamp.[67][68]
