Public House, 11 Senhouse Street

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

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