What is Wordsworth House?
{{Coord|54.663623|-3.368026|display=title|region:GB_scale:10000}} [[File:Wordsworth House Cockermouth.jpg|thumb|280px|alt=Wordsworth House|Wordsworth House]] '''Wordsworth House''' is a [[Georgian architecture|Georgian]] [[townhouse]] in [[Cockermouth]], [[Cumbria]], England. It is owned by the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]]. It was built in the mid-18th century. [[William Wordsworth]] was born in the house in 1770. The house is a Grade I [[listed building]].<ref>{{citation |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1327088 |title=Wordsworth House |work=historicengland.org.uk |publisher=[[Historic England]] |access-date=2009-12-21}}</ref> It is open to the public as a [[museum]] from March to October of each year. In November 2009, Cumbria was [[flood|hit by flooding]]. Wordsworth House was affected, but volunteers were able to save many of the [[Artifact (archaeology)|artifact]]s.<ref>{{citation |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/cumbria/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8378000/8378388.stm |title=Floods in Cumbria&nbsp;– November 2009 |publisher=[[BBC]] |date=7 December 2009 |access-date=2009-12-21}}</ref> == References == {{Reflist}} == Other websites == *{{Official|http://www.wordsworthhouse.org.uk/}} *[https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/wordsworth-house Wordsworth House information at the National Trust] *[http://www.visitcumbria.com/cm/wordhse.htm Wordsworth House information from VisitCumbria] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080102184109/http://www.visitcumbria.com/cm/wordhse.htm |date=2008-01-02 }} {{Authority control}} [[Category:Museums in England]] [[Category:National Trust properties]] {{history-stub}} [[Category:Buildings and structures in Cumbria]]