Liberal Club
LIBERAL CLUB, 35, LOWTHER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297408
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Liberal Club
- Statutory Address:
- LIBERAL CLUB, 35, LOWTHER STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297408
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Liberal Club
- Statutory Address 1:
- LIBERAL CLUB, 35, 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:
- LIBERAL CLUB, 35, 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:
- NY4022155807
Details
CARLISLE
NY4055NW LOWTHER STREET
671-1/12/210 (West side)
01/06/49 No.35
Liberal Club
(Formerly Listed as:
LOWTHER STREET
(West side)
Nos.35, 37 AND 39)
GV II
House now club. Early 1830s for Elizabeth Dacre. Calciferous
sandstone ashlar facade (other walls of brick) chamfered
plinth, cornice and solid parapet. Graduated greenslate roof
with dormer windows; C19 end brick chimney stacks.
2 storeys, 3 bays, double-depth, left-stair plan. Steps up to
central in antis doorway under overall radial fanlight. Sash
window above with glazing bars in stone architrave; small
patterned bowed cast-iron balcony. Flanking full-height bowed
bays with triple sash windows and glazing bars in stone
surrounds.
INTERIOR has moulded plaster ceiling cornices with roundels.
False ceilings on ground floor may conceal further
plasterwork. Original staircase has scrolled wrought-iron
balusters and moulded wooden handrail. Many original panelled
doors in panelled reveals with eared architraves.
HISTORY: see Robert Fell (1981). He dates the house to c1840,
but as Mrs Dacre lived on English Street and sold that house
in 1831 (Carlisle Journal 1831), this would seem to be the
date she moved into the new house. Brown (1951) says "Mrs
Dacre's 3 houses in Lowther Street, one of which in that with
the bow windows, was constructed purposely for her to give
entertainments in and had a huge drawing-room running from
front to back."
(Fell, Robert: Carlisle Liberal Club Limited - Centenary
1881-1981: 1981-; Carlisle Journal: 26 March 1831; Brown JW:
Round Carlisle Cross: 1951-: P.116).
Listing NGR: NY4022155807
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386799
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Brown, J W, Round Carlisle Cross, (1951), 116
Fell, R, Carlisle Liberal Club Limited Centenary 1881-1981, (1981)
Carlisle Journal in 26 March, (1831)
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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