Morton Cottage
MORTON COTTAGE, 210-212, WIGTON ROAD, CARLISLE, CA2 6JZ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297280
- Date first listed:
- 13-Nov-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Morton Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- MORTON COTTAGE, 210-212, WIGTON ROAD, CARLISLE, CA2 6JZ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297280
- Date first listed:
- 13-Nov-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Morton Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- MORTON COTTAGE, 210-212, WIGTON ROAD, CARLISLE, CA2 6JZ
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:
- MORTON COTTAGE, 210-212, WIGTON ROAD, CARLISLE, CA2 6JZ
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:
- NY3791054669
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18/05/2016
NY35SE
671-1/14/319
CARLISLE
WIGTON ROAD (North West side)
No 210-212, Morton Cottage
(Formerly listed as Morton Cottage and adjacent barn, WIGTON ROAD)
13/11/72
II
House, at one time a farmhouse and adjoining barn. Mid C18 with late C18 and early C19 alterations. Cement-rendered walls on chamfered plinth (all dressings of painted stone) partly with V-jointed quoins and rusticated pilaster; eaves cornice. Hipped graduated greenslate roof; cement-rendered end and ridge chimney stacks. Barn is of painted brick; local slate roof; C19 red brick rear stack. 2 storeys, 7 bays of double span with lower 2-storey, single bay at right with 2 additional bays of single storey; left lower barn. Left 5 bays of house have central panelled door and radial fanlight within pilastered porch surmounted by lion. Left Venetian squared bay window with dentilled cornice which is stepped; other windows are sashes with glazing bars in stone architraves. Right end 2 bays project with a ground-floor Venetian window and sash windows in stone architraves. Right extension has a panelled door in stone surround, casement windows with glazing bars and sash windows above.
INTERIOR not inspected.
This is marked as Morton Cottage on Hodskinson & Donalds' Map of Cumberland, surveyed 1770-1. (Hodskinson & Donalds: Map of Cumberland: 1770-1).
Listing NGR: NY3790254610
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386922
- 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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