4, ALFRED STREET, 3, BRUNSWICK STREET, 1-5, PORTLAND SQUARE
1-5, PORTLAND SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292044
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 4, ALFRED STREET, 3, BRUNSWICK STREET, 1-5, PORTLAND SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 1-5, PORTLAND SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292044
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 4, ALFRED STREET, 3, BRUNSWICK STREET, 1-5, PORTLAND SQUARE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-5, PORTLAND SQUARE
- Statutory Address 2:
- 3, BRUNSWICK STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- 4, ALFRED 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:
- 1-5, PORTLAND SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 3, BRUNSWICK STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 4, ALFRED 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:
- NY 40544 55772
Details
CARLISLE
NY4055 PORTLAND SQUARE 671-1/11/230 (North side) 22/02/73 Nos.1-5 (Consecutive)
GV II
Includes: No.4 ALFRED STREET NORTH. Includes: No.3 BRUNSWICK STREET. 7 houses now offices. Late 1860s or early 1870s. Calciferous sandstone ashlar on chamfered plinth, with raised quoins, sill band and stone-bracketed metal gutter; left return of red brick, right return of white glazed brick and stone dressings. Graduated greenslate roof, No.1 Portland Square with gable dormers, Nos 2-5 Portland Square with continuous C20 box dormers, slate hung. Main facade 2 storeys, alternating 3- and 2-bay houses; 3-bay houses on returns. Panelled doors, some partly glazed and overlights, within prostyle Tuscan porches. The 3-bay houses have flanking bay windows; No.5 is more ornate with round-headed lights in pilastered surrounds with large false keystones, the bay having quoins and sill brackets. 2-bay houses have canted bay windows. Sash windows above in stone architraves, some of them eared. Left return is No.3 Brunswick Street, of similar details to the facade but red brick instead of ashlar. Right return is No.4 Alfred Street North, of similar details to the facade but white brick instead of ashlar. INTERIORS have some office conversions, but most have panelled doors and moulded plaster ceiling cornices and central plaster roundels in principal rooms. The plans for No.3 by C & J Armstrong, dated 7 January 1867, are in Cumbria County Record Office, Ca/E4/762; however, the plans differ slightly from what was built.
Listing NGR: NY4054455772
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386826
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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