Cumbria College of Art and Design the Cottage and Homeacres Cottage
CUMBRIA COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN THE COTTAGE AND HOMEACRES COTTAGE, BRAMPTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196985
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Cumbria College of Art and Design the Cottage and Homeacres Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CUMBRIA COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN THE COTTAGE AND HOMEACRES COTTAGE, BRAMPTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196985
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Cumbria College of Art and Design the Cottage and Homeacres Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CUMBRIA COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN THE COTTAGE AND HOMEACRES COTTAGE, BRAMPTON ROAD
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:
- CUMBRIA COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN THE COTTAGE AND HOMEACRES COTTAGE, BRAMPTON ROAD
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 40406 57297
Details
CARLISLE
NY4057SW BRAMPTON ROAD 671-1/4/59 (North side) Cumbria College of Art and Design - The Cottage and Homeacres Cottage
GV II
Reform school, now part of college. 1854 for George Head Head of Rickerby with later extensions to rear. English garden wall bond brickwork without plinth; dressings of calciferous sandstone. Steeply-pitched graduated greenslate roof with skylight at rear; original ridge brick chimney stacks. Single storey, single depth, 5 bays with right 2-bay extension. Brampton Road facade has projecting end gables, that at left with a canted bay window; all other windows are 2-light stone mullioned with elaborate patterned cast-iron tracery. Left return has a gable porch with a panelled door in stone surround. Rear doors and casement windows in brick reveals. INTERIOR has exposed hammer-beam trusses. This was built as the Cumberland Reformatory for boys; for further details and illustration see Cumberland News (1956). Homeacres Cottage at right is included for group value. (Cumberland News: 4 May 1956: P.10).
Listing NGR: NY4033757219
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386636
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cumberland News in 4 May, (1956), 10
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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