NOS 24 AND 26 INCLUDING RAILINGS TO FRONT

NOS 24 AND 26 INCLUDING RAILINGS TO FRONT, 24 AND 26, LOWTHER STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1217914
Date first listed:: 01-Jun-1949
List Entry Name:: NOS 24 AND 26 INCLUDING RAILINGS TO FRONT
Statutory Address:: NOS 24 AND 26 INCLUDING RAILINGS TO FRONT, 24 AND 26, LOWTHER STREET

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Date:: 2002-06-27
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1217914
Date first listed:: 01-Jun-1949
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Apr-1994
List Entry Name:: NOS 24 AND 26 INCLUDING RAILINGS TO FRONT
Statutory Address 1:: NOS 24 AND 26 INCLUDING RAILINGS TO FRONT, 24 AND 26, LOWTHER STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: NOS 24 AND 26 INCLUDING RAILINGS TO FRONT, 24 AND 26, 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:: NY 40259 55848

Details

CARLISLE

NY4055NW LOWTHER STREET 671-1/12/208 (East side) 01/06/49 Nos.24 AND 26 including railings to front (Formerly Listed as: LOWTHER STREET No 24 (County Club) and No 26 (Royal Insurance))

GV II

2 houses, now bank and offices. 1830s. Calciferous sandstone ashlar, rusticated on ground floor, with string course, eaves cornice and open balustraded parapet. Graduated slate roof; rendered ridge and end chimney stacks. 3 storeys, 3 bays each; double-depth plan; Cellar voids retain their patterned cast-iron railings and steps down to cellar doors. Left entrances up steps have panelled doors and overlight in Roman Doric prostyle porches under false open parapets. Sash windows (with glazing bars in No.26) in plain stone reveals in cellar and ground floor; in stone architraves above with cornices and pierced aprons. Attic windows in eared architraves. INTERIORS retain much original detail; panelled doors in eared architraves and panelled internal shutters at some first-floor windows. Moulded plaster ceiling cornices embellished with angle heads in hallway of No.26. Panelled plaster ceiling arches at stairs. Original stone stairs with patterned cast-iron balusters and moulded wooden handrails.

Listing NGR: NY4025955848

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Legacy System number:: 386796
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.