Hospital Wing of County Gaol and Gaol Wall
HOSPITAL WING OF COUNTY GAOL AND GAOL WALL, ENGLISH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196941
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Hospital Wing of County Gaol and Gaol Wall
- Statutory Address:
- HOSPITAL WING OF COUNTY GAOL AND GAOL WALL, ENGLISH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196941
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Hospital Wing of County Gaol and Gaol Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOSPITAL WING OF COUNTY GAOL AND GAOL WALL, ENGLISH 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:
- HOSPITAL WING OF COUNTY GAOL AND GAOL WALL, ENGLISH 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 40194 55659
Details
CARLISLE
NY4055NW ENGLISH STREET 671-1/12/136 (West side) Hospital Wing of County Gaol and Gaol Wall
GV II
Hospital wing of County Gaol, now offices, and gaol wall. 1824-7 by Christopher Hodgson. Red sandstone ashlar, extensively restored, with solid parapet, battlemented on the English Street facade. Flat lead roof. 2 storeys, numerous bays. Facing onto English Street is the gaol wall on chamfered plinth with regularly-placed blind lancets with single metal bar. On the top on the angle of the wall, public executions were performed and a cast plaque records the last one in 1862. The wall joins with the Crown Court offices and is an integral part of those offices. The rear of the wall has built against it the hospital wing. 2 off-centre former segmental-arched doorways are now infilled and fitted with casement windows in stone surrounds, some paired. INTERIOR alterations, but the solitary confinement cell is still complete with its iron door and peep hole, now used as a strong room. For further details see Perriam, CWAAS, Trans.NS LXXVII. (Cumb. & West. Antiquarian & Archaeological Soc., New Series: Perriam DR: LXXXVII: The dating of the County Goal: P.129-140).
Listing NGR: NY4019455659
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386724
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society in Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Vol. 87, (), 129-140
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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