15 AND 17, LOWTHER STREET
15 AND 17, LOWTHER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297407
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 15 AND 17, LOWTHER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 15 AND 17, LOWTHER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297407
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 15 AND 17, LOWTHER STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 15 AND 17, LOWTHER 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:
- 15 AND 17, LOWTHER 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 40236 55729
Details
CARLISLE
NY4055NW LOWTHER STREET 671-1/12/205 (West side) Nos.15 AND 17
GV II
Entrance to arcade of 2 shops with offices above. Dated 1904 for the Carlisle Old Brewery Company by Henry Higginson of Carlisle. Red brick with rusticated and alternate block quoins (all dressings of calciferous sandstone), sill bands and modillioned cornice. Welsh slate mansard roof with boxed dormers and coped gables; red brick end and ridge chimney stacks. 3 and a half storeys, 3 bays. Central through flattened archway gives access to Lowther Arcade; flanking C20 shop windows within original rusticated pilasters, carried around the returns under the arch. Above the central bay has alternate block quoins; all windows are tripartite with alternate-block columns; the window over the arch is bowed and above is a carved scrolled panel inscribed LOWTHER ARCADE. Central open pediment with keystone feature. INTERIOR not inspected. Plans for this building in Cumbria County Record Office, Ca/E4/13541, were approved 19 June 1903; its style was to match the Three Crowns Hotel in English Street, at the other end of the arcade (now The Citadel) which was built earlier to the same architect's designs.
Listing NGR: NY4023655729
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386793
- 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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