Morton Community Centre
MORTON COMMUNITY CENTRE, WIGTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291709
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Morton Community Centre
- Statutory Address:
- MORTON COMMUNITY CENTRE, WIGTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291709
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Morton Community Centre
- Statutory Address 1:
- MORTON COMMUNITY CENTRE, WIGTON ROAD
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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:
- MORTON COMMUNITY CENTRE, WIGTON 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 38268 54982
Details
CARLISLE
NY3854 WIGTON ROAD 671-1/15/316 (South side) 01/06/49 Morton Community Centre (Formerly Listed as: WIGTON ROAD Morton)
II
Also known as: The Manor WIGTON ROAD. House, now community centre. Early C19 on the site of an earlier farmhouse. Cement-rendered walls on chamfered plinth (all dressings of calciferous sandstone), with V-jointed quoins and dentilled eaves cornice. Hipped graduated greenslate roof; rendered ridge chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 5 bays with a 6-bay return (the garden facade) forming an L-shape; set in its own grounds (Morton Park) reputedly laid out by Gilpin, the landscape gardener. Projecting central ashlar porch has engaged Ionic columns, double panelled doors in stone architrave under Chance family motto DEO NON FORTUNA and dentilled broken segmental pediment. Sash windows with glazing bars in stone architraves, those on upper floor are smaller. Garden facade is of 3 builds; left single bay; central 2 bays and right 3 bays. 3-bay part has central panelled door and radial fanlight within in-antis Ionic surround. Flanking squared bay windows, that on left converted to French window. Sash windows above in stone architraves. 2-bay part has left canted bay window and sash windows in stone architraves. Left bay has ground floor C20 casement windows in stone architraves. INTERIOR retains many original features; marble fireplaces in principal rooms, internal panelled shutters and panelled doors in panelled reveals. C19 cantilever staircase with patterned cast-iron balusters and moulded wooden handrail. Moulded plaster ceilings. Panelled wooden billiard room with heraldic shields is a late C19 addition. Internal inscription states that Sir Robert Chance gave this house to the citizens of Carlisle as a Community Centre in 1944; he died in December 1960 and the centre was opened 29 April 1967. For further details see article by Blake Tyson, "Newlaithes Hall", CWAAS Trans.,NS XC. (Cumb. & West. Antiquarian & Archaeological Soc., New Series: Blake Tyson: XC: Newlaithes Hall: P.235-252).
Listing NGR: NY3826854982
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386921
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society in Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Vol. 90, (), 235-252
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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