Former Holme Head Coffee Tavern and Reading Room
FORMER HOLME HEAD COFFEE TAVERN AND READING ROOM, NORTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196933
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Former Holme Head Coffee Tavern and Reading Room
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER HOLME HEAD COFFEE TAVERN AND READING ROOM, NORTH STREET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196933
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Former Holme Head Coffee Tavern and Reading Room
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER HOLME HEAD COFFEE TAVERN AND READING ROOM, NORTH 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:
- FORMER HOLME HEAD COFFEE TAVERN AND READING ROOM, NORTH 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 39779 54583
Details
CARLISLE
NY3954 NORTH STREET, Holme Head 671-1/15/223 (South side) Former Holme Head Coffee Tavern and Reading Room
GV II
Reading room and coffee tavern for work people, now meeting room. 1881, for Ferguson Bros, by George Dale Oliver. English garden wall bond brickwork on chamfered plinth (all dressings of calciferous sandstone) with band of decorative red tiles and sill band. Hipped red tile roof with decorative half-timbered gables and scrolled finial; tall rear red brick chimney stacks. 2-storey octagonal building. On the corner angle are C20 double doors in a moulded brick segmental arched surround (signs of where a wooden porch has been removed). Each face has paired sash windows on 2 levels, except where joined to other buildings, partly with glazing bars and some C19 coloured glass, under shaped lintels and in brick reveals. INTERIOR not inspected. Unified to the terrace housing on North Street (not included) by a single-bay link. GR wall post box is set into one of the faces. Carlisle Journal (1882), states that the building opened in January of that year; original building plans are in Cumbria County Record Office (Ca/E4/1403). For illustration and further details, see the company magazine Home Headings (1949). When laid out in the 1850s North Street was originally called Morley Street. (Carlisle Journal: 31 March 1882; Home Headings (Company Magazine), December 1949: P.4-5).
Listing NGR: NY3977954583
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386817
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Carlisle Journal in 31 March, (1882)
Home Head company Magazine in December, (1949), 4-5
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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