8 Senhouse Street

8, Senhouse Street, Maryport, CA15 6AB

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1137674
Date first listed:: 27-May-1977
List Entry Name:: 8 Senhouse Street
Statutory Address:: 8, Senhouse Street, Maryport, CA15 6AB

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1137674
Date first listed:: 27-May-1977
List Entry Name:: 8 Senhouse Street
Statutory Address 1:: 8, Senhouse Street, Maryport, CA15 6AB

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 8, Senhouse Street, Maryport, CA15 6AB

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District:: Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Maryport
National Grid Reference:: NY 03441 36570

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MARYPORT SENHOUSE STREET (north side) No 8

GV II Maryport is a mid-C18 Cumbrian town and port, succeeding a small settlement and harbour known as Ellenfoot (Alnfoot), established on a planned grid pattern by Humphrey Senhouse (1731-1814) to serve the local coal mining and iron industry, and function as a minor shipping point. The town officially became known as Maryport in 1756 after Humphrey Senhouse’s wife, although it had unofficially been referred to as such since the 1750s. During the C19 the town and port expanded to serve the local iron and steel industries as the town’s shipbuilding industry developed, and by the mid-C19 coal exporting had declined and the railway was introduced. The port and town remained important on the west Cumberland coast, but declined with the cessation of major industrial activity from the late 1920s. Maryport has been known as a destination for sea bathing since the late C18.

Senhouse Street, running from Curzon Street to the harbour, retains its historic layout of diverse and varied C18 and C19 buildings. Its north-west end is known as Shipping Brow and forms the earliest part of the mid-C18 grid pattern. It is labelled as the town’s earliest marketplace, known as Old Market Brow, in a map of around 1756, and as a consequence is wider than other streets in the town with continuous rows of houses north and south (now with a handful of buildings removed). By the early C19 it was no longer the official marketplace, but remained a prominent residential and commercial area, with those involved in the town’s principal industries residing there. A 1955 painting by L S Lowry depicts this building with the suggestion of a rendered blue elevation.

Rendered two-storey C18 house with stone window surrounds, with chamfered reveals, beneath a stone slate roof. It has two ground-floor windows either side of an entrance doorway containing a C19 four-panel door with a small cornice above supported on brackets. The first floor has three windows.

Listing NGR: NY0344136570

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.