Nos 37 and 39 Including Overthrow and Lamp Bracket
NOS 37 AND 39 INCLUDING OVERTHROW AND LAMP BRACKET, 37 AND 39, LOWTHER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218009
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 37 and 39 Including Overthrow and Lamp Bracket
- Statutory Address:
- NOS 37 AND 39 INCLUDING OVERTHROW AND LAMP BRACKET, 37 AND 39, LOWTHER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218009
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 37 and 39 Including Overthrow and Lamp Bracket
- Statutory Address 1:
- NOS 37 AND 39 INCLUDING OVERTHROW AND LAMP BRACKET, 37 AND 39, 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:
- NOS 37 AND 39 INCLUDING OVERTHROW AND LAMP BRACKET, 37 AND 39, 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:
- NY4021955824
Details
CARLISLE
NY4055NW LOWTHER STREET
671-1/12/211 (West side)
01/06/49 Nos.37 AND 39
including overthrow and lamp bracket
(Formerly Listed as:
LOWTHER STREET
(West side)
Nos.35, 37 AND 39)
GV II
2 houses in a row, now bank and office. Late 1830s for and by
Thomas Nelson of Carlisle. Calciferous sandstone ashlar on red
sandstone ashlar chamfered plinth; cornice and solid parapet.
Graduated greenslate roof with gabled and hipped dormers. C19
end brick chimney stack.
2 storeys, 4 bays each, of one build; of double-depth plan.
Off-centre panelled door and overlight; in antis columned
surround, the same in each house. Sash windows with glazing
bars in plain stone reveals and stone sills.
INTERIORS have moulded plaster ceiling cornices. Internal
panelled shutters at front windows. No.37 has ground floor
alterations, but No.39 retains its original cantilever stone
staircase with scrolled cast-iron balusters and moulded
mahogany handrail. Original panelled doors.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: scrolled wrought-iron overthrow and lamp
bracket in front of No.37.
HISTORY: Thomas Nelson lived in Earl Street in 1837, but by
1844 he was living in Lowther Street. For early C20
illustration, when No.37 was the Judge's Residence see Perriam
(1988).
(Perriam DR: Carlisle in Camera: 1988-: P.53).
Listing NGR: NY4021955824
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386800
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Perriam, D R, Carlisle in Camera, (1988), 53
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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