26, ABBEY STREET
26, ABBEY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1196981
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1949
- List Entry Name:
- 26, ABBEY STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 26, ABBEY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1196981
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1949
- List Entry Name:
- 26, ABBEY STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 26, 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:
- 26, 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:
- NY3972255999
Details
CARLISLE
NY3955NE ABBEY STREET
671-1/10/39 (West side)
01/06/49 No.26
GV II*
House. Late C18. Painted incised stucco on chamfered plinth,
with painted V-jointed quoins. Graduated greenslate roof; C19
end brick chimney stacks.
2 storeys, 4 bays, double-depth plan. Off-centre panelled door
and radial fanlight, up steps, in open pedimented doorcase
with block entablature and panelled reveals. Sash windows with
glazing bars in plain reveals, stone sills and flat arches.
Speared railings around basement void, carried up to front
door.
INTERIOR has many original details; panelled doors in fluted
doorcases and internal panelled shutters on both floors.
Moulded plaster ceiling cornices and central roundels in
principal rooms; one room with alcove recess. Cantilever
wooden staircase with patterned and scrolled balusters and
moulded wooden handrail. Black and white marble fireplaces in
principal rooms. Other original cast-iron fireplaces in
bedrooms and cellar. Round-headed stair window has flanking
niches.
Listing NGR: NY3972255999
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386613
- 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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