Cumberland Infirmary
CUMBERLAND INFIRMARY, NEWTOWN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1218237
- Date first listed:
- 13-Nov-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Cumberland Infirmary
- Statutory Address:
- CUMBERLAND INFIRMARY, NEWTOWN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1218237
- Date first listed:
- 13-Nov-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Cumberland Infirmary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CUMBERLAND INFIRMARY, NEWTOWN ROAD
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:
- CUMBERLAND INFIRMARY, NEWTOWN ROAD
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 38831 56084
Details
CARLISLE
NY3856 NEWTOWN ROAD 671-1/5/218 (North side) 13/11/72 Cumberland Infirmary
GV II*
Hospital. 1830-32 for the subscribers by Richard Tattersall; early C20 alterations and additions. Limestone (or sandstone) ashlar (from a quarry near Leeds) rusticated to ground floor on chamfered plinth with string courses, angle pilasters, solid parapet and finials. Graduated greenslate roof; rebuilt ashlar ridge chimney stacks. Originally 2 storeys with basement, 11 bays, 3rd storey added in 1933. 3 central bays are slightly raised and have central double doors and patterned overlight, up steps, within a top glazed tetrastyle Greek Doric portico with wreathed frieze. Each end bay also projects and has angle pilasters. Sash windows with glazing bars in stone architraves. Added storey has small sash windows in stone reveals. INTERIOR extensively altered. For illustration see Pevsner (1967) and Cornforth, Country Life (1978). For history see Galloway (1982). Previous list description and Pevsner refer to Robert Tattersall, however Colvin (1978) lists this as the work of Richard Tattersall.
Listing NGR: NY3879455993
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386816
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Galloway, TMcL, A Short History of the Cumberland Infirmary, (1982)
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 811
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cumberland and Westmorland, (1967), PL 62
Country Life in 11 May, (1978), 1332
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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