23, FISHER STREET
23, FISHER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196952
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 23, FISHER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 23, FISHER STREET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196952
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 23, FISHER STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 23, FISHER 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, FISHER 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:
- NY4003256015
Details
NY4056SW
671-1/8/164
CARLISLE
FISHER STREET
(East side)
No.23
GV
II
Quaker Meeting House, now shops with office above. Dated on
relocated keystone 1776; extensions dated on facade keystone
1864 by James Stewart of Carlisle; further 1960s and 1980s
internal alterations. Red brickwork on chamfered plinth (this
and all dressings of calciferous sandstone), rusticated ashlar
ground floor, sill band, solid brick and stone parapet with
central stone panel. Hipped Welsh slate roof; no chimneys.
2 storeys, 5 bays; this 1864 facade is built over the former
garden so that the original 1776 building, now partly
knocked-through, is behind.
Central 3 bays project and are quoined; flanking bays are
lower. 3 ground-floor round-headed arches with false
keystones, glazed as shop windows, the right arch being open.
Similar smaller round-arched windows on upper floor, the
flanking windows are paired, with single windows to side bays.
The open arch gives access to former original quoined-surround
doorway, now a through-passageway (the dated keystone 1776
removed to the rear of the passage).
INTERIOR has original exposed timber roof structure.
HISTORY: The original Quaker Meeting House on this site
collapsed in 1775 (records of Carlisle Monthly Meetings, 20
October 1775) and it had to be taken down in 1776. Its
replacement was near completion in January 1777, lack of
subscriptions holding up the progress. Original drawings for
the 1776 building (not as built) and for the 1864 alterations
are in Cumbria County Record Office, Ca/E4/873. Sold by the
Friends in 1962 when new Meeting House was built. As the
Kinmont Meeting Room (cafe), this retained some of the
original panelling until 1988. See DM Butler (1978).
(Butler, David M: Quaker Meeting Houses of the Lake Counties:
1978-: P.1-7; Carlisle Monthly Meetings: 20 October 1775).
Listing NGR: NY4003256015
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386751
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Butler, D M, Quaker Meeting Houses of the Lake Counties, (1978), 1-7
Carlisle Monthly Meetings in 20 October, (1775)
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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