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

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