8, Lowther Street
8, LOWTHER STREET, CARLISLE, CA3 8DA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218057
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 8, Lowther Street
- Statutory Address:
- 8, LOWTHER STREET, CARLISLE, CA3 8DA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218057
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 8, Lowther Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8, LOWTHER STREET, CARLISLE, CA3 8DA
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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:
- 8, LOWTHER STREET, CARLISLE, CA3 8DA
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 40266 55766
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18/05/2016
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CARLISLE
LOWTHER STREET (East side)
No. 8
(Formerly listed as The Post Public House, LOWTHER STREET, previously listed as Gretna Tavern, LOWTHER STREET)
22/03/74
GV
II
Former Post Office, later a public house. 1863 for Her Majesty's Office of Works by J Williams of London; 1899 additions. Calciferous sandstone ashlar on chamfered painted plinth with part quoin bands/panelled pilasters; string course, cornice and solid parapet. Roof hidden by parapet; red brick ridge and end chimney stacks. 3 storeys, 3 bays extending back in open plan. Left double panelled doors and overlight; 3 casement windows with panelled aprons; overall sign board supported by stone pilasters dividing each window and door. First-floor round-arched sash windows in stone architraves and panelled aprons; 2nd-floor windows with eared surrounds and aprons with roundel.
INTERIOR completely refurbished in Victorian style.
HISTORY: the site of the Butchers' Arcade of 1844. Plans for this building are in Cumbria County Record Office dated 1863, Ca/E4/2821. For photograph of this when it was the Post Office see Perriam (1989). Carlisle Journal (1899) says that the additional storey was to be started in September to make it the same height as the adjoining Athenaeum. Became the first State Managed pub in Carlisle in 1916 as `The Gretna Tavern'; changed its name to `The Shambles' in 1970s and The Post Public House in the 1980s.
(Perriam DR: Carlisle in Camera 2: 1989-: P.9; Carlisle Journal: 25 July 1899).
Listing NGR: NY4026655766
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386804
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Perriam, D R, Carlisle in Camera 2, (1989), 9
Carlisle Journal in 25 July, (1899)
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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