21 AND 22, PORTLAND SQUARE, 4, WILFRED STREET
21 AND 22, PORTLAND SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297395
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 21 AND 22, PORTLAND SQUARE, 4, WILFRED STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 21 AND 22, PORTLAND SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297395
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1987
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 21 AND 22, PORTLAND SQUARE, 4, WILFRED STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 21 AND 22, PORTLAND SQUARE
- Statutory Address 2:
- 4, WILFRED 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:
- 21 AND 22, PORTLAND SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 4, WILFRED 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 40516 55655
Details
CARLISLE
NY4055 PORTLAND SQUARE 671-1/11/238 (West side) 16/12/87 Nos.21 AND 22 (Formerly Listed as: PORTLAND SQUARE (West side) Nos.21 AND 22 including No.10 Brunswick Street and No.4 Wilfred Street)
GV II
Includes: No.4 WILFRED STREET. 3 houses in a terrace, now offices. Late 1850s and late 1860s. Flemish bond brickwork with light headers on stone plinth (this and all dressings of calciferous sandstone) partly quarry-faced, sill band and stone-bracketed metal gutter. Slate roof hipped on corner and C20 skylights; ridge brick chimney stacks. Nos 21 and 22 Portland Square of 2 storeys, 2 bays; corner house No.4 Wilfred Street has 2 bays on Portland Square and 3 bays on Wilfred Street. Portland Square houses have C20 doors and overlights in prostyle Ionic porches. Bay windows except No.22, those on No.4 Wilfred Street canted. Sash windows with glazing bars in stone architraves and panelled aprons. Wilfred Street facade had central door now replaced by windows in pilastered surround. Sash windows in stone architraves similar to those on Portland Square, that over former entrance with console-bracketed cornice. INTERIORS not inspected. These buildings are not shown on Asquith's Survey of Carlisle 1853 and only Nos 21 and 22 are on the 1865 OS map.
Listing NGR: NY4050655664
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386834
- 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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