Skiddaw Building
SKIDDAW BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA, FUSEHILL STREET, CARLISLE, CA1 2HH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196953
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Skiddaw Building
- Statutory Address:
- SKIDDAW BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA, FUSEHILL STREET, CARLISLE, CA1 2HH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196953
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Skiddaw Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- SKIDDAW BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA, FUSEHILL STREET, CARLISLE, CA1 2HH
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:
- SKIDDAW BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA, FUSEHILL STREET, CARLISLE, CA1 2HH
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:
- NY4093055573
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 04/05/2016
NY4055
671-1/11/167
CARLISLE
FUSEHILL STREET
Skiddaw Building
(Formerly listed as City General Hospital)
GV
II
Formerly the Union Workhouse (called the Fusehill Workhouse). 1863-4, Lockwood & Mawson (architects). A good example of this later phase of workhouse design by nationally renowned architects. Original plans dated 1862 (Cumbria County Record Office, Ca/E4/821). Flemish bond brickwork on chamfered plinth (all dressings of calciferous sandstone, partly painted), with angle pilastered quoins on projections, string courses and dentilled cornice. Hipped greenslate roof without chimney stacks, central bellcote. 3 storeys under common roof; recessed pedimented 5 central bays, flanked by square single-bay projections rising above roof as lead-domed cupolas; beyond are 9-bay wings with further single-bay projections symmetrically placed; overall 23-bay facade. Central round-arched C20 door in original stone surround. All windows are 1980s casements in original surrounds, those on the ground and first floor with rounded stone arches and stone sills; top floor has segmental brick arches. Clock in central pediment. Cupolas have C20 brick blocking of former 2-light openings. Projecting bays on wings have fretted stone parapet to match similar panels on cupolas. Left bay has been added or rebuilt in C20 brick.
INTERIOR is functional and little changed from its workhouse layout.
Used as a hospital during World War I and became City General under the 1948 National Health Act.
Listing NGR: NY4093055573
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386757
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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