Trustee Savings Bank and Attached Railings
TRUSTEE SAVINGS BANK AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, LOWTHER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1196930
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Trustee Savings Bank and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- TRUSTEE SAVINGS BANK AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, LOWTHER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1196930
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Trustee Savings Bank and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- TRUSTEE SAVINGS BANK AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, LOWTHER 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:
- TRUSTEE SAVINGS BANK AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, LOWTHER 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 40263 55779
Details
CARLISLE
NY4055NW LOWTHER STREET 671-1/12/203 (East side) 01/06/49 Trustee Savings Bank and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: LOWTHER STREET (East side) Premises occupied by Trustee Savings Bank (including entrance to Gretna Hall))
GV II*
Formerly known as: Carlisle Savings Bank LOWTHER STREET. Athenaeum now bank. 1840, for the subscribers, by Arthur and George Williams of Liverpool. Calciferous sandstone ashlar (from Prudhoe Quarries) on chamfered plinth, with giant order pilasters and Corinthian capitals; moulded entablature, modillioned cornice and parapet, partly balustraded with central festoon and flanking head panels. Graduated slate roof without chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 5 bays. Recessed end bays have C20 panelled doors and overlight in architraves under bracketed cornice; small sash windows above in stone architraves with moulded sill bands under festoon panels. Central 3 bays have sash windows with glazing bars in stone architraves on bracketed moulded sills under console-bracketed cornices. Upper floor sash windows with glazing bars in eared architraves on moulded sill bands. INTERIOR entirely gutted in 1988 (had been altered in 1874 and 1929). The railings in front are 1988. HISTORY: references to the construction of the building are in the Carlisle Journal (1839, 1840 and 1845). For details of costs and later sale see Mannix & Whellan (1847). Opened in 1874 as part of the adjoining Post Office. Became part of the Gretna Tavern in 1916 and front part converted into Savings Bank by JH Martindale 9 July 1929. Has an impressive facade when viewed down Devonshire Street. (Carlisle Journal: 2 February 1839; Carlisle Journal: 2 May 1840; Carlisle Journal: 18 January 1845; Mannix and Whellan: Directory of Cumberland: 1847-: P.140).
Listing NGR: NY4026355779
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386805
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mannix, , Whellan, , Directory of Cumberland, (1847), 140
Carlisle Journal in 18 January, (1845)
Carlisle Journal in 2 February, (1839)
Carlisle Journal in 2 May, (1840)
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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