The County Bar the Cumbrian Hotel (Part)
THE COUNTY BAR, 2, 4 AND 6, BOTCHERGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208798
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The County Bar the Cumbrian Hotel (Part)
- Statutory Address:
- THE COUNTY BAR, 2, 4 AND 6, BOTCHERGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208798
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The County Bar the Cumbrian Hotel (Part)
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE COUNTY BAR, 2, 4 AND 6, BOTCHERGATE
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE CUMBRIAN HOTEL (PART), COURT SQUARE
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:
- THE COUNTY BAR, 2, 4 AND 6, BOTCHERGATE
- Statutory Address:
- THE CUMBRIAN HOTEL (PART), COURT SQUARE
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:
- NY4030155578
Details
CARLISLE
NY4055NW BOTCHERGATE
671-1/12/53 (West side)
Nos.2, 4 AND 6
The County Bar
GV II
Formerly known as: The County Hotel BOTCHERGATE.
Includes: The Cumbrian Hotel (part) COURT SQUARE.
Also known as: Fletchers BOTCHERGATE.
Hotel extension and hall, over shop and bar, originally
forming part of The Cumbrian Hotel in Court Square. 1866-8 by
Cory and Ferguson. Painted brick with rusticated pilastered
quoins, string courses and modillioned brick eaves cornice.
Slate roof (not visible from the street) with gabled dormers;
original painted brick end and ridge chimney stacks.
3 storeys and attic, 3 bays. Central C20 doors and fanlight in
paired colonnette surround under glazed canopy. Flanking C20
shop windows within original shop openings under signboards
with ball finials. Arcade of small paired casements above in
deep brick recesses with modillions; pair above entrance
within pilasters carried up from doorway. Paired sash windows
above have flattened and rounded heads, those on first floor
with patterned aprons and those on second floor with central
colonnette, all in brick reveals. Carved stone cross between
arcade windows marks the site of the former freelidge stone
showing the city boundary. The stone had originally been at
pavement level.
INTERIOR has been extensively altered. Plans for this are in
Cumbria County Record Office, CA/E4/766 and 773, dated 22
February 1866.
Forms an integral part of the ballroom of The Cumbrian Hotel
(qv) as this building extends over it.
Listing NGR: NY4030155578
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386632
- 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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