Gaol Wall, West of Crown Court
GAOL WALL, WEST OF CROWN COURT, BOROUGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196983
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Gaol Wall, West of Crown Court
- Statutory Address:
- GAOL WALL, WEST OF CROWN COURT, BOROUGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196983
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Gaol Wall, West of Crown Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- GAOL WALL, WEST OF CROWN COURT, BOROUGH 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:
- GAOL WALL, WEST OF CROWN COURT, BOROUGH 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:
- NY4016255594
Details
CARLISLE
NY4055NW BOROUGH STREET
671-1/12/51 (East side)
Gaol wall, west of Crown Court
GV II
County Gaol wall. 1824-7 by Christopher Hodgson. High snecked
red sandstone wall without plinth, with rounded coping.
Extends from the Crown Court down Court Square Brow, along
Borough Street and up Bush Brow, enclosing the former gaol
yard. Nearest the Crown Court the wall stands to its full
original height of almost 10 metres, with the blocked archway
into the former stone yard. Along Borough Street and Bush Brow
its height has been reduced. The squared gate piers on Bush
Brow are not 1820s but are included for group value.
Christopher Hodgson's original drawings for the gaol and this
wall, dated 1824, are in Carlisle Library. For a further
section of this wall, see Hospital Wing of County Gaol and
Gaol Wall, English Street (qv).
Listing NGR: NY4016255594
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386629
- 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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