10-30, TAIT STREET, 1, JAMES TERRACE

1, JAMES TERRACE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1297403
Date first listed:
13-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:
10-30, TAIT STREET, 1, JAMES TERRACE
Statutory Address:
1, JAMES TERRACE

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1297403
Date first listed:
13-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:
10-30, TAIT STREET, 1, JAMES TERRACE
Statutory Address 1:
1, JAMES TERRACE
Statutory Address 2:
10-30, TAIT STREET

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
1, JAMES TERRACE
Statutory Address:
10-30, TAIT 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:
NY4052455507

Details

CARLISLE

NY4055 TAIT STREET
671-1/11/276 (South side)
13/11/72 Nos.10-30 (Even)

GV II

Includes: No.1 JAMES TERRACE.
11 houses in a terrace with one on return. Early 1850s in 2
phases. Flemish bond brickwork with light headers on chamfered
plinth (all dressings of painted stone except unpainted No.10)
and stone-bracketed metal gutter. Graduated local slate roof
with C19 shared ridge chimney stacks.
2 storeys, 2 bays each. Nos 12-26 have right and left doorways
flanking central dividing through-passage; panelled doors,
some C20, up steps in columned in antis surrounds under
overall radial fanlights in brick reveals with stone lintels.
Other houses have same doorways but no passages. Sash windows
and casements (only one, No.14, has glazing bars on upper
floor) in eared stone architraves. Small basement windows
under each ground floor window, with pavement grille. No.30
has a 2-bay return which is partly No.1 James Terrace; a
further single-bay extension also forms part of No.1 James
Terrace and is an integral part of the terrace.
INTERIORS not inspected.
HISTORY: Nos 14-30 were built first and are shown on Asquiths
Survey of Carlisle, 1853; the rest were added shortly
afterwards. Dean Tait only came to Carlisle in 1850 and it was
then that this new street was named. He left Carlisle to be
Bishop of London in 1856 and went on to become Archbishop of
Canterbury in 1868.


Listing NGR: NY4052455507

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
386876
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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