Description

CARLISLE

NY3954 RICHARDSON STREET
671-1/15/243 (West side)
No.153
and Carlisle Cemetery Office

GV II

Curator's house and cemetery offices. 1855-6 by Messrs JM & J
Hay of Liverpool. Flemish bond brickwork on chamfered plinth
(all dressings of calciferous sandstone) with flush quoins and
modillioned eaves cornice. Steeply-pitched graduated
greenslate roofs with coped gables and cross finials; ashlar
and brick ridge and end chimney stacks. 2-storey, single-bay
house; single-storey, 4-bay office. Left house (No.153) is
gabled and projects; squared ground-floor bay has triple
mullioned windows and similar 2-light window above, all with
pointed-headed lights. Doorway to the house with plank door,
chamfered stone surround with depressed pointed head. To right
of house is a large pointed through-archway under a gable.
Office range to right of arch is lower and has off-centre
plank door in surround similar to house doorway; 2- and
4-light mullioned windows with pointed-heads. Rear of archway
gable has a clock face with Roman numerals. INTERIORS not
inspected.

Listing NGR: NY3911654498

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26491406

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