Cumbria Local Heritage List

Local lists help to build and reinforce a sense of local character and distinctiveness. They include a range of heritage assets including buildings, monuments, sites, places and landscapes.

Heritage assets are of local importance and known as 'non-designated heritage assets'. 

Local Listing does not provide any extra planning controls to the assets. Inclusion on a local list means it is a material planning consideration. Local lists are also used to inform Local Plans.

Types of heritage assets suitable for the list

We may consider a wide range of buildings, structures and sites suitable for the list. Below is a brief list of the types of assets we would consider for the local heritage list.

  • Agriculture: farms, barns, gate posts and boundary walls
  • Commercial: pubs, shops and offices
  • Cultural: arts installations, graffiti and statues
  • Recreational: village halls, community centres, cinemas, sports grounds and social clubs
  • Domestic: town houses, bespoke development and designed estates
  • Education: schools and colleges
  • Health: hospitals, almshouses and poorhouses
  • Industrial: factories, warehouses and workshops
  • Military: civil defence, military camps, war memorials, air raid shelters and pill boxes
  • Religious: churches, chapels, meeting houses, memorials, crosses and tombs
  • Transport: railway stations, signal boxes and railway bridges
  • Ancient orchards

For more information visit Local Heritage Listing: Identifying and Conserving Local Heritage

Cumbria Local Heritage Listing Campaign

We are inviting nominations for sites and features in your local area.

To help you decide whether or not an asset is worthy of being added to the Local List, please refer to the attached selection criteria.

Cumbria Local List Selection Criteria (PDF 384Kb / 2 pages)

How to nominate a site

To nominate a site for safeguarding please complete the Local List Submission online survey.

A selected panel of representatives from local councils and voluntary heritage groups will review the nominations. Each local authority will assess the initial List for formal adoption. Once adopted the council will publish the list here on our website. The list will get updated on a periodic basis as new nominations come forward for approval.

Local List Approved Assets

To view which sites have been approved for inclusion in the Westmorland and Furness Council Local List download the Westmorland and Furness Council Local List Approved Assets (CSV 12Kb / 1 page) 

If you have additional information about any of the approved sites, including historic or current photographs, please submit this using the online form above or email us using the contact details below.

If you consider a site to have been wrongly added to the Local List please email us setting out why the site fails to meet the selection criteria below. Where evidence is submitted which shows a site does not meet the selection criteria, the inclusion of the site on the list will be reconsidered by the review panel.

Further information

If you would like any further information or have any questions please contact our Conservation officers on the details below.

Contact details

Conservation Team

conservation2@westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk