WALL AND RAILINGS AROUND CENTRAL GARDENS

WALL AND RAILINGS AROUND CENTRAL GARDENS, PORTLAND SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1291976
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: WALL AND RAILINGS AROUND CENTRAL GARDENS
Statutory Address:: WALL AND RAILINGS AROUND CENTRAL GARDENS, PORTLAND SQUARE

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Date:: 2006-09-20
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1291976
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-1987
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Apr-1994
List Entry Name:: WALL AND RAILINGS AROUND CENTRAL GARDENS
Statutory Address 1:: WALL AND RAILINGS AROUND CENTRAL GARDENS, PORTLAND SQUARE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: WALL AND RAILINGS AROUND CENTRAL GARDENS, PORTLAND SQUARE

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 40564 55683

Details

CARLISLE

NY4055 PORTLAND SQUARE 671-1/11/242 Wall and railings around central 14/12/87 gardens (Formerly Listed as: PORTLAND SQUARE Railings surrounding square garden)

GV II

Wall and railings. 1870, cast by Lees & Graham of Carlisle (impressed founders name). Red sandstone; cast-iron railings. Encloses a garden square surrounded by houses. Low wall with chamfer, surmounted by patterned cast-iron speared railings, broken in centre of each side by gate openings (without gates); integral cast-iron gate piers of octagonal shaft with ball-and-spear finials. Gate opening on west side enlarged. This was laid out as a square without buildings on Asquiths Survey of Carlisle, 1853: when buildings were added this was made into a private residents garden; see Carlisle Journal (1870) which records the planting let to Little & Ballantyne and the inauguration by the Mayor by planting a tree in each corner. (Carlisle Journal: 11 March 1870).

Listing NGR: NY4056455683

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Legacy System number:: 386838
Legacy System:: LBS

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'Carlisle Journal' in 11 March, (1870)

Legal

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