Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Wordsworth House
	locality:-	Cockermouth
	parish	Cockermouth parish, once in Cumberland
	county:-	Cumbria
		building/s
	coordinates:-	NY11863068
	10Km square:-	NY13
	1Km square	NY1130
		Wordsworth House -- Cockermouth -- Cockermouth -- Cumbria / -- 18.6.2013
	old photograph:-	Bell 1880s-1940s
		Photograph, sepia, Wordsworth House, birthplace of William Wordsworth, Cockermouth, Cumberland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
	person:-	: Wordsworth, William
	date:-	1890=1899
	period:-	19th century, late
	old photograph:-	Bell 1880s-1940s
		Photograph, black and white, terrace walk in the garden of Wordsworth House, Cockermouth, Cumberland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
		stamped at reverse:-
		HERBERT BELL / Photographer / AMBLESIDE
	date:-	1890=1899
	period:-	19th century, late
	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		GARDEN AND FORECOURT WALLING, AND GATE PIERS TO WORDSWORTH HOUSE / / MAIN STREET / COCKERMOUTH / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / I / 71716 / NY1186230705
		courtesy of English Heritage
		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.
	district:-	Allerdale
		listed building -- gate piers
	coordinates:-	NY11863070
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s
	old print:-	Robertson 1911
		Wordsworthshire, by Eric Robertson, Windermere, Westmorland, illustrated by Arthur Tucker, published by Chatto and Windus, London, 1911.
		Print, lithograph? Wordsworth's Birthplace, Cockermouth, from a watercolour by Arthur Tucker, published by Chatto and Windus, London, 1911.
		Tipped in opposite p.18 of Wordsworthshire by Eric Robertson.
		printed at bottom:-
		WORDWORTH'S BIRTHPLACE, COCKERMOUTH
		signed at painting lower left:-
		Arthur Tucker
	person:-	poet : Wordsworth, William
	date:-	1911
	period:-	1910s
	old print:-	Robertson 1911
		Wordsworthshire, by Eric Robertson, Windermere, Westmorland, illustrated by Arthur Tucker, published by Chatto and Windus, London, 1911.
		Print, lithograph? Micklebrows, seen from John Wordsworth's Garden, Cockermouth, from a watercolour by Arthur Tucker, published by Chatto and Windus, London, 1911.
		Tipped in opposite p.32 of Wordsworthshire by Eric Robertson.
		printed at bottom:-
		MICKLEBROWS, SEEN FROM JOHN WORDSWORTH'S GARDEN, COCKERMOUTH
		signed at painting lower left:-
		Arthur Tucker
	date:-	1911
	period:-	1910s
	old print:-	Goodwin 1887 (edn 1890)
		Set of prints, etchings? 56 views in Westmorland, Cumberland, etc, by Harry Goodwin, published by Swan Sonnenschein and Co, Paternoster Square, London, 1890.
		Print, etching? Wordsworth's Birthplace, Cockermouth, Cumberland, by Harry Goodwin, published by Swan Sonnenschein and Co, Paternoster Square, London, 1890.
		Tipped in opposite p.8 of Through the Wordsworth Country, by William Knight.
		printed at lower centre:-
		Wordsworth's birth-place - Cockermouth
	person:-	poet : Wordsworth, William
	date:-	1887
	period:-	19th century, late
	old print:-	Bogg 1898
		Book, Lakeland and Ribblesdale, OR A Thousand Miles of Wandering along the Roman Wall, the Old Border Region, Lakeland, and Ribblesdale, by Edmund Bogg, publishd by Edmund Bogg, 3 Woodhouse Lane, and James Miles, Guildford Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1898.
		Print, engraving, Wordsworth's Birthplace, Cockermouth, Cumberland, published by Edmund Bogg, 3 Woodhouse Lane, and James Miles, Guildford Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1898.
		Included on p.192 of Lakeland and Ribblesdale, by Edmund Bogg.
	person:-	poet : Wordsworth, William
	date:-
	period:-	19th century, late
	hearsay	Built for Joshua Lucock, Sheriff of Cumberland, 1746. Sold to the Lowther Family; rented to John Wordsworth who was land agent and attorney for Sir James Lowther, from 1766. William Wordsworth born here 7 April 1770. Of the other children: Christopher born here 1774 became Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2013

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