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Date of photo: 2023	© Steve Turner
The Wordsworth Hotel was situated on Main Street.
Early 19th century Grade II Listed building. Listed in many places as 43, the OS map shows 43 and 45 either side with no number here. Woods map of 1832 shows a building deeper on the plot and perhaps illustrates the extent of a previous building. The Tithe Map of 1839 shows a shorter building entitled Apple Tree Inn with perhaps stables and similar ancillary buildings to the rear. The passage way is first shown on the 1863 OS map. The 1983-88 Ordnance Survey map is the first to specifically name the ‘Wordsworth Hotel’ and indicates that the hotel function extended into the rear yard. The main courtyard building appears to have been constructed between 1863 and 1898. At one time it was used as an assembly hall at the rear of the hotel but since the 1960s was subdivided into hotel bedrooms. J. Bernard Bradbury’s booklet “Cockermouth in Pictures (10) Inns and Taverns” (1993) indicates that the hotel, which originated as the Apple Tree Inn, dates from 1811. The building is likely to have been adapted from a previous building, the contrasting colour of brickwork suggesting that it had previously been a two storey structure. Street View suggests the Wordsworth closed around 2016 and in 2020 planning approved the conversion of the first and second floor and the Main Street building and the former assembly room in the rear courtyard to form a total of eight residential dwellings, comprising four apartments, one duplex apartment and three individual dwellings although this plan was modified in 2022 because of building regs. The commercial unit to the ground floor of the Main Street building being retained. Westlakes moved in late 2022 or early 2023. A search of my directories found; 1828 John Rome; 1847-1858 William Walker (& excise officer - 1847 at no.126); 1873 Simpson Hewetson (listed at no.45); 1883 Johanna Hewetson (family commercial & posting house); 1894-1901 Mrs Martha Gloag (every accommodation for commercial gentlemen); 1906 George Cannon; 1910 Mrs Eleanor Cannon; 1914 Reay Lucock. Steve Turner (July 2023)
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