The Cranemaker Public House

THE CRANEMAKER PUBLIC HOUSE, 43, LONDON ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1196924
Date first listed:
13-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:
The Cranemaker Public House
Statutory Address:
THE CRANEMAKER PUBLIC HOUSE, 43, LONDON ROAD

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1196924
Date first listed:
13-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:
The Cranemaker Public House
Statutory Address 1:
THE CRANEMAKER PUBLIC HOUSE, 43, LONDON ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE CRANEMAKER PUBLIC HOUSE, 43, LONDON ROAD

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 40775 55230

Details

CARLISLE

NY4055 LONDON ROAD 671-1/11/191 (East side) 13/11/72 No.43 The Cranemaker Public House

GV II

House, now public house. 1830s or 1840s. Flemish bond brickwork on chamfered plinth (all dressings of painted stone) with V-jointed quoins and cornice. Graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and skylights; original end brick chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Central C20 panelled door and overlight in stone architrave with bracketed cornice. Sash windows with glazing bars in architraves, that over entrance with console-bracketed cornice. C20 right extensions. INTERIOR not inspected. Appears on 1842 Map of Carlisle. Opened as The Theakston public house in 1981, see Cumberland News (1981), previously The Carleton private hotel. Changed name to The Cranemaker in 1990 after the demise of Cowans, Sheldon & Co. which was situated across the road (demolished 1989). (Cumberland News: 17 July 1981: P.7).

Listing NGR: NY4077555230

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Legacy System number:
386780
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Cumberland News in 17 July, (1981), 7

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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