Description

CARLISLE

NY4056SW SCOTCH STREET
671-1/8/262 (West side)
17/06/88 Nos.42 AND 44

GV II

3 shops with offices above. Dated 1889 on pediment. By George
Dale Oliver. Red sandstone ashlar with interval tiered
pilasters, string courses, solid parapet and full pedimented
dormers. Welsh slate roof with decorative ridge tiles; lead
cupola on angle tower. Ashlar and brick ridge chimney stacks.
3 and a half storeys, 3 bays on Scotch Street with 3-bay
return on Old Blue Bell Lane; Jacobean style. Ground-floor C20
doors and shop windows within original dividing pilasters.
Corner shop retains its overall signboard and original
illuminating scrolled metal gas-lamp brackets. First-floor
cross-mullioned windows of 2 and 3 lights, single on the
angle, with blind round arches. Similar windows above without
the transoms. Shaped, pedimented central dormers on each
facade and a round angle tower. Below the parapet of the tower
is the painted lettering TOWER BUILDINGS. The shop window of
No.46 (qv) adjoining, projects one bay into No.44 on ground
floor. INTERIORS not inspected.
The original design was published in The Builder, 3rd Aug
1889.

Listing NGR: NY4008956066

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26491410

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Recommended Books

• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)