The Sportsman Inn
THE SPORTSMAN INN, HEADS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210153
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Sportsman Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE SPORTSMAN INN, HEADS LANE
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- Date:
- 2002-09-08
- Reference:
- IOE01/08621/22
- Rights:
- © Mr Larry D. Brown. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210153
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Sportsman Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SPORTSMAN INN, HEADS LANE
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 SPORTSMAN INN, HEADS LANE
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:
- NY 40016 55819
Details
CARLISLE
NY4055NW HEADS LANE 671-1/12/176 (South side) 22/03/74 The Sportsman Inn
GV II
Inn. Early C18 with later alterations. Painted rendered walls on chamfered plinth. Local slate roof; end rendered chimney stack. Low 2 storeys, 4 bays. Right C20 door and flanking windows under overall signboard on wooden pilasters. Sash windows in plain reveals with painted stone sills. Signboard and Inn sign between windows. Left C20 lean-to extension. INTERIOR extensively altered. For history see MS notes in Carlisle Library. For 1900 illustration see Perriam, (1988). Built on the site of the former Blackfriars Convent, the site being a Scheduled Ancient Monument. (Perriam DR: Carlisle in Camera: 1988-: P.60).
Listing NGR: NY4001655819
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386768
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Perriam, D R, Carlisle in Camera, (1988), 60
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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