10, 12 AND 14, LOWTHER STREET
10, 12 AND 14, LOWTHER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217895
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 10, 12 AND 14, LOWTHER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 10, 12 AND 14, LOWTHER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217895
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 10, 12 AND 14, LOWTHER STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 10, 12 AND 14, LOWTHER 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:
- 10, 12 AND 14, LOWTHER 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:
- NY4026355796
Details
CARLISLE
NY4055NW LOWTHER STREET
671-1/12/204 (East side)
22/03/74 Nos.10, 12 AND 14
(Formerly Listed as:
LOWTHER STREET
(East side)
Nos.10, 12, 14 AND 22)
GV II
Spirit vaults with shop and office extension, now 2 offices
with saleroom behind. 1868 and 1881 for Hope and Bendal, wine
& spirit merchants, both by Daniel Birkett of Carlisle.
Quarry-faced calciferous sandstone, on chamfered ashlar
plinth, with bracketed cornice and balustraded parapet.
Graduated greenslate roof, moulded ashlar ridge and end
chimney stacks.
Spirit vaults are to the right, 2 storeys, 3 bays; the left
extension is of 2-and-a-half storeys, 5 bays, very carefully
matched to look of one build with a continuous cornice and
parapet. Spirit vaults have right panelled doors, up
semicircular steps, and fanlight in granite colonnette
surround under shaped hoodmould. Central oriel window above
has shouldered-arched lights with octofoils above, flanked by
sash windows in chamfered surrounds. Left extension (the
straight joint is hidden by a downpipe) has off-centre
panelled double doors in elliptical arch; 2 canted bays to the
left retain original glazing bars and right cusped paired sash
windows; windows and door under a continuous shaped hoodmould.
Left panelled door and boarded overlight up steps in surround
to match the door in the spirit vaults. Upper floor casement
windows with original glazing bars, that on right paired, in
stone architraves under cornices. Half-dormers above are also
casements under shaped pediments.
INTERIOR behind central door has stained glass screen, other
details hidden by modern fascias. Extensive vaulted wine
cellars.
Original plans for both parts of the building are in Cumbria
County Record Office, Ca/E4/950 (approved 8 December 1868) and
1415 (approved 17 June 1881). Hope and Bendal became part of
the State Management Scheme in 1916 and was sold off in 1972.
Listing NGR: NY4026355796
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386792
- 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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