Blencathra Building
BLENCATHRA BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA, FUSEHILL STREET, CARLISLE, CA1 2HH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210121
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Blencathra Building
- Statutory Address:
- BLENCATHRA BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA, FUSEHILL STREET, CARLISLE, CA1 2HH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210121
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Blencathra Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLENCATHRA BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA, FUSEHILL STREET, CARLISLE, CA1 2HH
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:
- BLENCATHRA BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA, FUSEHILL STREET, CARLISLE, CA1 2HH
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:
- NY4095455512
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18/05/2016
NY4055
671-1/11/168
CARLISLE
FUSEHILL STREET
Blencathra Building
(Formerly listed as City Maternity Hospital (part of City General Hospital))
GV
II
Former maternity ward, originally hospital wing of Workhouse.1863-4 Lockwood & Mawson. Flemish bond brickwork on chamfered plinth (all dressings of calciferous sandstone, partly painted), with quoined angle pilasters, string courses and dentilled cornice. Hipped greenslate roof without chimneys. 2 storeys, 7 bays, the last end bays on each side project and are pedimented; built in a style to match the main workhouse building. Central C20 door in original round-arched pilastered surround. Original sash windows with glazing bars, those on ground floor in rounded stone arches with stone sills; upper floor segmental brick arches. The projections have tripartite ground-floor windows, those above of 2 lights with central colonnette, all in stone arches.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Listing includes the lower 3-bay flanking wings. Shown as hospital wing for Fusehill Workhouse on 1865 OS map.
Listing NGR: NY4095455512
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386758
- 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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