Wall, Gates and Railings in Front of Tullie House
WALL, GATES AND RAILINGS IN FRONT OF TULLIE HOUSE, ABBEY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1196978
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Wall, Gates and Railings in Front of Tullie House
- Statutory Address:
- WALL, GATES AND RAILINGS IN FRONT OF TULLIE HOUSE, ABBEY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1196978
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Wall, Gates and Railings in Front of Tullie House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALL, GATES AND RAILINGS IN FRONT OF TULLIE HOUSE, ABBEY 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:
- WALL, GATES AND RAILINGS IN FRONT OF TULLIE HOUSE, ABBEY 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 39770 55991
Details
CARLISLE
NY3955NE ABBEY STREET 671-1/10/34 (East side) 01/06/49 Wall, gates and railings in front of Tullie House (Formerly Listed as: ABBEY STREET (North side) Stone gate piers & gates & boundary wall at Tullie House)
GV I
Wall, gate piers, gates and railings for garden of Tullie House (qv). Late C17 (could be C19 imitation). Red sandstone ashlar gate piers and wall; cast-iron gates and railings. Off-centre large rectangular rusticated piers on moulded plinths, surmounted by projecting cornice and bracketed ball finials. Flanking low wall on moulded plinth under flat moulded coping. Spear and scrolled railings. Fresh appearance of stone suggests replacement. Celia Fiennes on a visit to Carlisle in 1698 said "one house which was the Chancellors (Thomas Tullie) built of stone very lofty 5 good sarshe (sash) windows in the front and this within a stone wall'd garden well kept and iron gates to discover it to view with stone pillars," see Christopher Morris (ed.) (1947). Brown (1951) says "Tullie House had formerly a high wall in front, which Mr George Dixon pulled down." However a 1791 watercolour of the Abbey gate by Robert Carlyle shows the Tullie House wall in the background and it looks much as it does today. (Morris, Christopher: The Journeys of Celia Fiennes: 1947-: P.202; Brown JW: Round Carlisle Cross: 1951-: P.113).
Listing NGR: NY3977055991
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386608
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Morris, C, The Journeys of Celia Fiennes, (1947), 202
Brown, J W, Round Carlisle Cross, (1951), 113
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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