28 AND 30, ABBEY STREET
28 AND 30, ABBEY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208701
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1949
- List Entry Name:
- 28 AND 30, ABBEY STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 28 AND 30, ABBEY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208701
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1949
- List Entry Name:
- 28 AND 30, ABBEY STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 28 AND 30, 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:
- 28 AND 30, 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:
- NY3973455993
Details
CARLISLE
NY3955NE ABBEY STREET
671-1/10/40 (West side)
01/06/49 Nos.28 AND 30
GV II
2 houses in a row. Late C18. Painted Flemish bond brickwork on
chamfered plinth (all dressings of painted stone) and
stone-bracketed metal gutter. Graduated greenslate roof with
left coped gable and kneeler; C18, C19 and C20 ridge and end
brick chimney stacks.
2 storeys under common roof, No.28 of 2 bays and No.30 of 4
bays. Both houses have off-centre panelled doors and radial
fanlights in open pedimented doorcase. Sash windows with
glazing bars, in brick reveals, stone sills and flat brick
arches. The ground floor right window of No.28 is a C20 bowed
window within the C18 window opening.
INTERIOR of No.30 has panelled shutters. Wooden hall archway
with panelled soffit. Wooden staircase with squared balusters
and moulded wooden handrail. Principal ground-floor room has
recessed alcove and moulded plaster ceiling cornice. Owner of
No.30 says that these 2 houses were originally one house and
No.28 has Victorian staircase added when the division was
made. For illustration see Country Life (1978).
(Country Life: 11 May 1978: P.1328).
Listing NGR: NY3973455993
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386614
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in 11 May, (1978), 1328
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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