The Boardroom Public House

THE BOARDROOM PUBLIC HOUSE, 42, CASTLE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1196992
Date first listed:
13-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:
The Boardroom Public House
Statutory Address:
THE BOARDROOM PUBLIC HOUSE, 42, CASTLE STREET
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1196992
Date first listed:
13-Nov-1972
Date of most recent amendment:
11-Apr-1994
List Entry Name:
The Boardroom Public House
Statutory Address 1:
THE BOARDROOM PUBLIC HOUSE, 42, CASTLE 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE BOARDROOM PUBLIC HOUSE, 42, CASTLE 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 39858 56025

Details

CARLISLE

NY3956SE CASTLE STREET 671-1/6/75 (West side) 13/11/72 No.42 The Boardroom Public House (Formerly Listed as: CASTLE STREET (West side) The Board Inn)

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Includes: No.9 PATERNOSTER ROW. Public house with manager's flat above. Late C18 with C19 and C20 alterations. Painted rendered walls on chamfered painted plinth, with V-jointed quoins; bracketed gutter carried round the gable return. Graduated green slate roof with coped gables and kneelers; original painted rendered end chimney stacks. 3 storeys, 4 bays, with 5-bay return on Paternoster Row. Off-centre panelled door and overlight in pilastered door surround. Through passage opening on extreme right with iron gate. Sash windows with glazing bars in painted stone architraves, those on upper floors with bracketed sills. Return has right panelled door and overlight in painted stone architrave, left panelled door and overlight in plain reveals. Windows similar to those on Castle Street. INTERIOR to ground floor has been altered. HISTORY: BC Jones, in CWAAS.Trans., NS. LXXXVIII, states that the deeds for this house begin in 1651. As "The Board Inn" this was operated by the Carlisle and District State Management Scheme between 1916 and 1972. A 1920s photograph in Carlisle Museum collection shows the ground floor before its 1960s and 1980s alterations. (Cumb. & West. Antiquarian & Archaeological Soc., New Series: Jones, Bruce: LXXXVII: Before Tullie House: P.141).

Listing NGR: NY3985656025

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
386657
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society in Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Vol. 87, (), 141

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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