Crown and Mitre Hotel
54, CASTLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297351
- Date first listed:
- 13-Nov-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Crown and Mitre Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- 54, CASTLE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297351
- Date first listed:
- 13-Nov-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Crown and Mitre Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- 54, CASTLE STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- CROWN AND MITRE HOTEL, 4-10, ENGLISH 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:
- 54, CASTLE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- CROWN AND MITRE HOTEL, 4-10, ENGLISH 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 40019 55928
Details
CARLISLE
NY4055NW ENGLISH STREET 671-1/12/128 (West side) 13/11/72 Nos.4-10 (Even) Crown and Mitre Hotel
GV II
Includes: No.54 CASTLE STREET. Hotel with shops beneath. 1903-5 for Walter Scott, by George Dale Oliver of Carlisle. Ground floor rusticated red sandstone ashlar; brick walls above with flush stone quoins (all dressings of red sandstone), string courses, eaves cornice and open balustraded parapet. Greenslate mansard roof with dormer windows; red brick ridge chimney stacks. 4 storeys, 11 bays. Central and end projecting bays are carried above the eaves with prominent shaped gables. Central C20 glazed doors in original round stone arch with panelled sofits; round-arched side lights. 2-storey mullioned and transomed bay windows above have a carved panel between of Art Nouveau figures and scrolled vine leaves. Ground floor C20 shop windows within original divisions of rusticated pilasters and decorative carved panels. Recessed bays have a first-floor open-balustraded balcony with (non-original) urn finials. Upper-floor 3-light windows are mullioned and transomed, 2nd floor with one, 1st floor with 2 transoms and some in the end bays with side lights. Separate carved Crown and Mitre on projecting end bays have painted details. INTERIOR retains much original detail; rib-panelled plaster ceilings, some with modillioned cornices, banded marble walls in hall, dado panelling and marble columns; Art Nouveau relief plaster panel of Peace and Plenty. Staircase with wrought-iron balusters and moulded wooden handrail. Stained glass window on stairs has Crown and Mitre theme. Ballroom has 2 rows of painted stone composite columns and pilasters; coved aisles and musicians' gallery. Original plans and section dated 1902 are in Cumbria County Record Office (Ca/E4/13487). Carlisle Journal (1905), stated it was to open on 6th June and had cost »50,000. One of the shops at the right on the ground floor is No.54 Castle Street. (Carlisle Journal: 19 May 1905).
Listing NGR: NY4000455942
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386715
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Carlisle Journal in 19 May, (1905)
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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