Public House, 11 Senhouse Street

11, Senhouse Street, Maryport, CA15

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Public house, late C18. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1327134
Date first listed:: 27-May-1977
List Entry Name:: Public House, 11 Senhouse Street
Statutory Address:: 11, Senhouse Street, Maryport, CA15

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1327134
Date first listed:: 27-May-1977
Date of most recent amendment:: 31-Oct-2022
List Entry Name:: Public House, 11 Senhouse Street
Statutory Address 1:: 11, Senhouse Street, Maryport, CA15

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:: 11, Senhouse Street, Maryport, CA15

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Maryport
National Grid Reference:: NY 03441 36526

Summary

Public house, late C18.

Reasons for Designation

11 Senhouse Street, Maryport is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

Architectural interest:

* dating from the late C18, where there is a presumption in favour of listing buildings which retain a significant proportion of their historic fabric; * an attractive building constructed in the local style and materials, that retains its original late-C18 character.

Historic interest: * as one of the key buildings on Shipping Brow, that formed the earliest part of the mid-C18 planned town.

Group value:

* it benefits from a group value with several C18 and C19 domestic and commercial buildings, which together combine to impart the historic character of this part of Maryport.

History

Maryport is a mid-C18 Cumbrian town and port, succeeding a small settlement and harbour known as Ellenfoot (Alnfoot), established on a planned grid pattern by Humphrey Senhouse (1731-1814) to serve the local coal mining and iron industry, and function as a minor shipping point. The town officially became known as Maryport in 1756 after Humphrey Senhouse’s wife, although it had unofficially been referred to as such since the earlier 1750s. During the C19 the town and port expanded to serve the local iron and steel industries as the town’s shipbuilding industry developed, and by the mid-C19 coal exporting had declined and the railway was introduced. The port and town remained important on the west Cumberland coast but declined with the cessation of major industrial activity from the late 1920s. Maryport has been known as a destination for sea bathing since the late C18.

Senhouse Street, running from Curzon Street to the harbour, retains its historic layout of diverse C18 and C19 buildings. Its north-west end is known as Shipping Brow and forms the earliest part of the mid-C18 grid pattern. It is labelled as the town’s earliest marketplace, known as Old Market Brow, on a map of around 1756, and as a consequence is wider than other streets in the town with continuous rows of houses north and south (now with a handful of buildings removed). By the early C19, it was no longer the official marketplace, but remained a prominent residential and commercial area, with those involved in the town’s principal industries residing there. This building is annotated 'Inn' on the Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map surveyed in 1864, when it was one of about 30 public houses in Maryport, including six on Senhouse Street.

Details

Public house, late C18.

MATERIALS: rendered stone, with stone slate roof.

EXTERIOR: situated on the south side of Shipping Brow, it has two storeys and five bays beneath a pitched roof of slate. There is a right end stone chimney stack and kneeler. The ground floor has an entrance in the second bay, which is flanked to the right by a single window and to the left by three windows, and there are five identical windows to the first floor; all windows have painted stone surrounds and one-over-one sliding sash window frames with margin lights. The right return is blind.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 71853
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Websites
Maryport, Allerdale, Cumbria Historic Area Assessment, Historic England Research Report Series no 48-2022 , accessed 20-07-2022 from https://historicengland.org.uk/research/results/reports/8732/MaryportAllerdaleCumbria_HistoricAreaAssessment

Legal

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