48, ABBEY STREET
48, ABBEY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208720
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1949
- List Entry Name:
- 48, ABBEY STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 48, ABBEY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208720
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1949
- List Entry Name:
- 48, ABBEY STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 48, 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:
- 48, 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:
- NY3979455962
Details
CARLISLE
NY3955NE ABBEY STREET
671-1/10/45 (West side)
01/06/49 No.48
GV II
House and workshop, now house and restaurant. Late C17 or
early C18 with later alterations and C19 workshop. Painted
brick walls on chamfered plinth. Graduated greenslate roof;
C20 ridge brick chimney stacks.
2 storeys, 4 bays. Right 3 bays symmetrical, have central
panelled door in bolection architrave with pulvinated frieze
and cornice. Sash windows with glazing bars in C19 painted
stone surround; to left C18 sash window with glazing bars in
brick reveals under flattened arch and false keystone. The
left return wall is built partly on the reduced medieval wall
of the adjoining Priory of St Mary. INTERIOR not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: When a school in the early C19, Thomas Bouch,
the engineer and designer of the ill-fated Tay Bridge, was a
pupil here.
Listing NGR: NY3979455962
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386619
- 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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