77-83, CASTLE STREET, 1, GREENMARKET

1, GREENMARKET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297359
Date first listed:: 13-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:: 77-83, CASTLE STREET, 1, GREENMARKET
Statutory Address:: 1, GREENMARKET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297359
Date first listed:: 13-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:: 77-83, CASTLE STREET, 1, GREENMARKET
Statutory Address 1:: 1, GREENMARKET
Statutory Address 2:: 77-83, CASTLE STREET

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 1, GREENMARKET
Statutory Address:: 77-83, CASTLE 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 40016 55963

Details

CARLISLE

NY4055NW CASTLE STREET 671-1/12/76 (East side) 13/11/72 Nos.77-83 (Odd)

GV II

Includes: No.1 GREENMARKET. House now 3 shops. Late C18. Painted render over brick (partly exposed at time of survey) with V-jointed quoins and broad pilasters; lead downpipes with rainwater heads, one inscribed R & M E. C20 slate roof, vestige of rendered end chimney stack; roof level of No.77 is slightly higher. 3 storeys, 7 bays. Central C20 glazed door and fanlight in bolection doorcase with imposts and carved-leaf keystone. Ground floor C20 shop windows. Pilasters divide facade into single and double bays. Sash windows in segmental-headed painted stone surrounds with false keystones. Inscribed panel over central window says SIR WALTER SCOTT WAS MARRIED FROM THIS HOUSE DEC 24TH 1797. Return gable wall becomes No.1 Greenmarket. INTERIOR of Nos 79-83 was of interest, but gutted in 1989 - Carlisle Museum photographed interior before work commenced. For other views of interior see Slee (1915). Correspondence in Cumbria County Record Office shows which house was the one associated with Walter Scott. (Slee, Mary: Older Carlisle: 1951-: P.8-9).

Listing NGR: NY4002055962

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Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Slee, M, Older Carlisle, (1951), 8-9

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