County Hotel
COUNTY HOTEL, 1-15, BOTCHERGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208782
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- County Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- COUNTY HOTEL, 1-15, BOTCHERGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208782
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- County Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- COUNTY HOTEL, 1-15, BOTCHERGATE
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:
- COUNTY HOTEL, 1-15, BOTCHERGATE
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:
- NY4030455615
Details
CARLISLE
NY4055NW BOTCHERGATE
671-1/12/52 (East side)
22/03/74 Nos.1-15 (Odd)
County Hotel
(Formerly Listed as:
BOTCHERGATE
(North East side)
Red Lion Hotel)
GV II
Formerly Red Lion Hotel, with ground floor shops and hotel
above, renamed in 1990 and recently renovated. 1894-6 for
Samuel Bousfield by J Murchie. Calciferous sandstone ashlar,
with string courses, sill bands and bracketed cornice.
Graduated greenslate roof with lead hips on corner and
pedimental dormer windows; ashlar and brick ridge chimney
stacks.
3 storeys and attic, 13 bays, higher 3-storey with attic
corner block with angled bay and 2-bay left return facing onto
The Crescent under pavilion roof. C20 panelled doors and
radial fanlight in round-headed surround with polished granite
pilasters, under bracketed hood. Incised lettering over door
"Red Lion Hotel". Ground-floor C20 shop windows divided by
original polished granite pilasters. Canted oriel window over
entrance has pediment. Other windows are sashes in plain stone
reveals, under carved brackets supporting balustraded balcony.
Initials S.B. on keystone over door (the owner). The corner
range has paired sash windows with rounded heads on first
floor in pilastered surrounds with lion's head keystones;
flattened-arched windows above in stone architraves.
INTERIOR: ground floor mostly taken up with shops, but at the
rear is a Royal Doulton tiled billiard room (most removed
1990).
Plans dated 1893 are in Cumbria County Council Records Office,
CA/E4/12227. A photograph in JP Templeton, (1988), which must
have been taken in 1896 because it has a horse bus on it,
shows workmen completing the roof.
(Templeton JP: Carlisle in Old Picture Postcards: P.27).
Listing NGR: NY4030455615
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386630
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Templeton, J P, Carlisle in Old Picture Postcards, (1988), 27
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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