No 2 the Abbey
NO 2, THE ABBEY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1197013
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1949
- List Entry Name:
- No 2 the Abbey
- Statutory Address:
- NO 2, THE ABBEY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1197013
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1949
- List Entry Name:
- No 2 the Abbey
- Statutory Address 1:
- NO 2, THE ABBEY
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:
- NO 2, THE ABBEY
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 39829 55956
Details
CARLISLE
NY3955NE THE ABBEY 671-1/10/24 No.2 01/06/49
GV II*
Prebendal house, now privately occupied. Late C17 with early C18 rear extension; 1888 alterations and additions by CJ Ferguson. Red sandstone ashlar on chamfered plinth, with raised quoins. Graduated greenslate roofs with coped gables; left ashlar and brick end chimney stacks; right C18 gable brick chimney stacks. Rear extensions are of handmade bricks. 2 storeys, 5 bays of double span; central entry/stair plan. Central top-lit panelled double doors in quoined surround with key frieze and cornice hood. Sash windows with glazing bars in stone surrounds (originally C17 cross mullioned). Left C19 brick extension has 2-light windows with glazing bars in fluted stone surrounds. The rear stair projected from original single span and is of quoined sandstone with a large round-arched sash window in stone reveals under a hoodmould. The flanking extension to create the double span means that the stair no longer projects; these have irregular sash windows with glazing bars, some in C18 reveals but others are C19 insertions. INTERIOR has been extensively altered in late C18 or early C19. Panelled doors in panelled reveals and internal panelled shutters. Moulded plaster ceiling cornices. Black and white marble tiles in hall. Stair arch is of 2 rounded arches on central pillar. Wooden stair is also late C18 or early C19 with turned newel posts, squared balusters and moulded handrail. Some moulded stone fire surrounds could be early C18. Carlisle Journal 4 January 1889, records the work done by CJ Ferguson; plans for these alterations are in Cumbria County Record Office, Ca/E4/1991. (Carlisle Journal: 4 January 1889).
Listing NGR: NY3982255966
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386599
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Carlisle Journal in 4 January, (1889)
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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