A prominent Cockermouth building has sold for £190,000 at auction.
The former Printing House on Main Street went under the hammer at Carlisle Racecourse last Thursday with a guide price of £150,000-plus.
The bookshop, art materials supplier and gallery, which also used to contain a printing museum, closed in 2009, a year after owner David Winkworth died.
Mr Winkworth and wife Angela opened the business in 1978. He was one of the town’s best-known businessmen and promoters of its heritage.
Mrs Winkworth said it was a relief that the building had finally sold.
She added: "It's too soon to know about the purchasing and what's going to happen with it.
"It's a relief that it has gone but until I know a bit more it isn't all over.
"It should be completed by the end of August."
The large property, which includes Georgian and Elizabethan elements, a courtyard and some side buildings, had been on the market for a long time and was damaged in the 2009 floods.
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