Numbers 10-22 Incorporating City Walls
NUMBERS 10-22 INCORPORATING CITY WALLS, 10-22, WEST WALLS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1297278
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 10-22 Incorporating City Walls
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 10-22 INCORPORATING CITY WALLS, 10-22, WEST WALLS
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1297278
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 10-22 Incorporating City Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 10-22 INCORPORATING CITY WALLS, 10-22, WEST WALLS
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:
- NUMBERS 10-22 INCORPORATING CITY WALLS, 10-22, WEST WALLS
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 40021 55726
Details
CARLISLE
NY3956SE WEST WALLS
671-1/6/309 (West side)
Nos.10-22 (Even)
incorporating city walls
GV I
City wall, mews stables, warehouses and school; now theatre,
public house, amusement arcade and disco. Early C12 city wall,
1813 school, late C19 mews and 1980s public house, etc. These
later buildings in themselves are not of interest but are
listed to protect the city wall behind them.
The front wall of each building on the West Walls facade being
built on top of the west city walls. Robert Smirke suggested
that buildings could be built against the walls when he
advised on the building of the Central School; see
correspondence in Cumbria County Record Office, Ca/2/209/76
and Ca/5/3/39, and conveyances of the School 1919-20 as St
Cuthbert's Parish Hall (the school closed 31 August 1909)
Ca/5/2/40.
That the city wall exists behind these buildings was confirmed
by work done by the Carlisle Archaeological Unit in recording
the structure when "Legends" and "Big Softies" were extended
in 1985. For the through-archway and chamber behind the wall,
thought to be the sewerage outlet for Blackfriars Convent, now
within the Green Room Theatre, see W Hutchinson (1794);
Carlisle Journal (1829); and Lysons Magna Britannia:
Cumberland (1816), for drawings of the chamber.
This stretch of city walls does not form part of the Scheduled
Ancient Monument of the remaining exposed West Walls, but is a
continuation of it. For the further continuation of this wall
see under the Central Plaza Hotel, Victoria Viaduct (qv).
(Carlisle Journal: 7 February 1829; Lysons: Magna Britannia;
Cumberland: 1816-: P.CCVII; Hutchinson, William: History of
Cumberland: 1794-: P.607).
Listing NGR: NY4002155726
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386912
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lysons, Reverend D, Lysons, S, Magna Britannia Cumberland, (1816), 207
Hutchinson, , History of Cumberland, (1794), 607
Carlisle Journal in 7 February, (1829)
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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