20, PORTLAND SQUARE, 5, BRUNSWICK STREET
20, PORTLAND SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196904
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 20, PORTLAND SQUARE, 5, BRUNSWICK STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 20, PORTLAND SQUARE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196904
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 20, PORTLAND SQUARE, 5, BRUNSWICK STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 20, PORTLAND SQUARE
- Statutory Address 2:
- 5, BRUNSWICK STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 20, PORTLAND SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 5, BRUNSWICK STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 40552 55652
Details
CARLISLE
NY4055 PORTLAND SQUARE 671-1/11/237 (South side) 16/12/87 No.20
GV II
Includes: No.5 BRUNSWICK STREET. 2 houses, now an office on a corner site. Late 1870s or 1880s. Portland Square facade of calciferous sandstone, quarry-faced at basement level and bracketed cornice. Graduated slate roof, hipped on corner; white brick ridge chimney stack. Brunswick Street facade is of English garden wall bond brickwork, the cornice of modillioned brick and white brick. Graduated slate roof with ridge and end brick chimney stacks, the end one reduced. 2 storeys, 3 bays on Portland Square with a single-bay return; Brunswick Street facade of lower roof line, 2 storeys, 6 bays. Portland Square house is the end of a terrace; a high central doorway is now fitted with a sash window in stone architrave. Flanking canted bay windows carried up from basement. Paired sash windows over bay windows, single over former door, all in stone surrounds. Return has paired sashes in plain brick reveals. Brunswick Street facade has off-centre panelled door and overlight in pilastered stone porch. Sash windows in brick reveals with slightly-arched brick heads and stone sills. INTERIOR not inspected.
Listing NGR: NY4055255652
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386833
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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