23, PORTLAND SQUARE, 4, WILFRED STREET
23, PORTLAND SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196905
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 23, PORTLAND SQUARE, 4, WILFRED STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 23, PORTLAND SQUARE
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- Date:
- 2003-10-07
- Reference:
- IOE01/10729/23
- Rights:
- © Mr Duncan Keeler. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196905
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 23, PORTLAND SQUARE, 4, WILFRED STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 23, PORTLAND SQUARE
- Statutory Address 2:
- 4, WILFRED 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:
- 23, PORTLAND SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 4, WILFRED 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 40491 55685
Details
CARLISLE
NY4055NW PORTLAND SQUARE 671-1/12/239 (West side) 16/12/87 No.23
GV II
Includes: No.3 WILFRED STREET. 2 houses, now one office. Late 1860s or early 1870s. Red brick on chamfered calciferous sandstone plinth (all dressings of this material), with raised quoins, sill bands and stone-bracketed metal gutter. Hipped graduated local slate roof, with gabled dormers; rebuilt ridge and end brick chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 3 bays, with 3-bay return on Wilfred Street and lower 2-storey, 3-bay house, No.3 Wilfred Street. Central panelled door and fanlight in Venetian Gothic surround with red sandstone colonnette and heavy bracketed hood. Sash windows in quoined architraves, that right of door is paired and those on ground floor with segmental arches. Return wall has central paired sash windows, otherwise same windows as facade. No.3 Wilfred Street has central panelled door and overlight in stone surround with cornice. Sash windows in quoined architraves. INTERIORS not inspected. These buildings do not appear on the 1865 OS map.
Listing NGR: NY4050655664
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386835
- 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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